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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De paruis, grandis aceruus erit.
To my brother M. Br. Whitney.
Althovghe thy store bee small, for to beginne,
Yet guide it well, and soone it is increaste,
For mightie men, in time theire wealthe did winne,
Whoe had at firste, as little as the leste:
Where God dothe blesse, in time aboundance springes,
And heapes are made, of manie little thinges.
Fructibus Agrippæ Siculis, quos colligis Icci,
Yet guide it well, and soone it is increaste,
For mightie men, in time theire wealthe did winne,
Whoe had at firste, as little as the leste:
Where God dothe blesse, in time aboundance springes,
And heapes are made, of manie little thinges.
Si rectè frueris: non est vt copia maior
Ab Ioue donari possit tibi, tolle querelas.
Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit vsus.
1. Epist. 12.
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