A choice of emblemes, and other devises For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: Wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: Bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment |
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Iudicium Paridis.
To Paris, here the Goddesses doe pleade:
With kingdomes large, did Ivno make her sute,
And Pallas nexte, with wisedome him assaide,
But Venvs faire, did winne the goulden fruite.
No princelie giftes, nor wisedome he did wey,
For Bewtie, did comaunde him to obey.
With kingdomes large, did Ivno make her sute,
And Pallas nexte, with wisedome him assaide,
But Venvs faire, did winne the goulden fruite.
No princelie giftes, nor wisedome he did wey,
For Bewtie, did comaunde him to obey.
The worldlie man, whose sighte is alwaies dimme,
Whose fancie fonde eache pleasure doth entice,
The shaddowes, are like substance vnto him,
And toyes more deare, them thinges of greatest price:
But yet the wise this iudgement rashe deride,
And sentence giue on prudent Pallas side.
Regna Iouis coniux; virtutem filia iactat.
Whose fancie fonde eache pleasure doth entice,
The shaddowes, are like substance vnto him,
And toyes more deare, them thinges of greatest price:
But yet the wise this iudgement rashe deride,
And sentence giue on prudent Pallas side.
Et postea ibidem.
Dulcè Venus risit, Nec te Pari munera tangunt,
Vtraque suspensi plena timoris, ait.
Ouid. Epist. 15. De iudicio Paridis.
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