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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Vxoriæ virtutes.
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Vxoriæ virtutes.
To my Sister, M. D. Colley.
This representes the vertues of a wife,
Her finger, staies her tonge to runne at large.
The modest lookes, doe shewe her honest life.
The keys, declare shee hathe a care, and chardge,
Of husbandes goodes: let him goe where he please.
The Tortoyse warnes, at home to spend her daies.
Her finger, staies her tonge to runne at large.
The modest lookes, doe shewe her honest life.
The keys, declare shee hathe a care, and chardge,
Of husbandes goodes: let him goe where he please.
The Tortoyse warnes, at home to spend her daies.
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