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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Temeritas.
The waggoner, behoulde, is hedlonge throwen,
And all in vaine doth take the raine in hande,
If he be dwrawen by horses fierce vnknowen,
Whose stomacks stowte, no taming vnderstande,
They praunce, and yerke, and out of order flinge,
Till all they breake, and vnto hauocke bringe.
And all in vaine doth take the raine in hande,
If he be dwrawen by horses fierce vnknowen,
Whose stomacks stowte, no taming vnderstande,
They praunce, and yerke, and out of order flinge,
Till all they breake, and vnto hauocke bringe.
That man, whoe hath affections fowle vntam'de,
And forwarde runnes neglecting reasons race,
Deserues by right, of all men to bee blam'de,
And headlonge falles at lengthe to his deface,
Then bridle will, and reason make thy guide,
So maiste thow stande, when others doune doe slide.
And forwarde runnes neglecting reasons race,
Deserues by right, of all men to bee blam'de,
And headlonge falles at lengthe to his deface,
Then bridle will, and reason make thy guide,
So maiste thow stande, when others doune doe slide.
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