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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Ridicula ambitio.
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Ridicula ambitio.
Heare Hanno standes, and lookes into the skye,
And feedes him selfe, with hope of future praise:
Vnto his birdes, he dothe his eare applie,
And trustes in tyme, that they his name should raise:
For they weare taughte, before they flewe abrode,
Longe tyme to saie, that Hanno was a God.
And feedes him selfe, with hope of future praise:
Vnto his birdes, he dothe his eare applie,
And trustes in tyme, that they his name should raise:
For they weare taughte, before they flewe abrode,
Longe tyme to saie, that Hanno was a God.
But, when the birdes from bondage weare releast,
And in the woodes, with other birdes weare ioin'de,
Then Hannos name, theire woonted lesson ceaste,
For eache did singe, accordinge to his kinde:
Then flee this faulte, Ambition workes our shame,
And vertue loue, which dothe extoll our name.
And in the woodes, with other birdes weare ioin'de,
Then Hannos name, theire woonted lesson ceaste,
For eache did singe, accordinge to his kinde:
Then flee this faulte, Ambition workes our shame,
And vertue loue, which dothe extoll our name.
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