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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Tecum habita.
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Tecum habita.
Ad Agnatum suum R. W. Coolensem.
A solemne feaste great Ivpiter did make,
And warn'd all beastes, and creatures to be there:
The presse was muche, eache one his place did take:
At lengthe, when all weare in there cheifest cheare:
At seconde course, the snaile crepte slowlie in,
Whome Iove did blame, cause hee so slacke had bin.
And warn'd all beastes, and creatures to be there:
The presse was muche, eache one his place did take:
At lengthe, when all weare in there cheifest cheare:
At seconde course, the snaile crepte slowlie in,
Whome Iove did blame, cause hee so slacke had bin.
Who aunswered thus, oh kinge behoulde the cause?
I beare my house, wherefore my pace is slowe:
Which warneth all, in feasting for to pause,
And to the same, with pace of snaile to goe:
And further telles, no places maie compare,
Vnto our homes, where wee commaunders are.
I beare my house, wherefore my pace is slowe:
Which warneth all, in feasting for to pause,
And to the same, with pace of snaile to goe:
And further telles, no places maie compare,
Vnto our homes, where wee commaunders are.
Admonet hoc, sectanda gradu conuiuia tardo,
Atque domo propria dulcius esse nihil.
Atque domo propria dulcius esse nihil.
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