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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Intestinæ simultates.
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Intestinæ simultates.
When ciuill sworde is drawen out of the sheathe,
And bluddie broiles, at home are set a broache,
Then furious Mars with sworde doth rage beneathe,
And to the Toppe, deuowring flames incroache,
None helpes to quenche, but rather blowes the flame,
And oile doe adde, and powder to the same.
And bluddie broiles, at home are set a broache,
Then furious Mars with sworde doth rage beneathe,
And to the Toppe, deuowring flames incroache,
None helpes to quenche, but rather blowes the flame,
And oile doe adde, and powder to the same.
Intestine strife, is fearefull moste of all,
This, makes the Sonne, to cut his fathers throate,
This, parteth frendes, this, brothers makes to bralle,
This, robbes the good, and setts the theeues a floate,
This, Rome did feele, this, Germanie did taste,
And often times, this noble Lande did waste.
This, makes the Sonne, to cut his fathers throate,
This, parteth frendes, this, brothers makes to bralle,
This, robbes the good, and setts the theeues a floate,
This, Rome did feele, this, Germanie did taste,
And often times, this noble Lande did waste.
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