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 Inuido & Auaro, iocosum.
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De Inuido & Auaro, iocosum.
The Goddes agreed, two men their wishe should haue:
And did decree, who firste demaunde did make,
Shoulde haue his wishe: and he that last did craue,
The others gifte shoulde double to him take.
The Couetous wretche, and the Enuious man:
Theise weare the two, that of this case did scanne.
And did decree, who firste demaunde did make,
Shoulde haue his wishe: and he that last did craue,
The others gifte shoulde double to him take.
The Couetous wretche, and the Enuious man:
Theise weare the two, that of this case did scanne.
They longe did striue, who shoulde the firste demaunde:
The Couetous man refus'de, bicause his mate,
Shoulde haue his gifte then doubled out of hande:
The thought whereof, vppon his harte did grate
Wherefore the Goddes, did plague him for his sinne,
And did commaunde, th' Enuious man beginne.
The Couetous man refus'de, bicause his mate,
Shoulde haue his gifte then doubled out of hande:
The thought whereof, vppon his harte did grate
Wherefore the Goddes, did plague him for his sinne,
And did commaunde, th' Enuious man beginne.
Who did not craue, what Midas cheife did choose.
Because his frende, the fruite thereof should finde:
But onelie wish'de, that he one eie might loose,
Vnto the ende, to haue the other blinde:
Which beinge say'd, he did his wishe obtaine:
So but one eye, was lefte vnto them twaine.
Because his frende, the fruite thereof should finde:
But onelie wish'de, that he one eie might loose,
Vnto the ende, to haue the other blinde:
Which beinge say'd, he did his wishe obtaine:
So but one eye, was lefte vnto them twaine.
See heare how vile, theise caytiffes doe appeare,
To God, and man: but chieflie (as wee see)
The Couetous man, who hurteth farre, and neare.
Where spytefull men, theire owne tormentors bee.
But bothe be bad, and he that is the beste,
God keepe him thence, where honest men doe reste.
To God, and man: but chieflie (as wee see)
The Couetous man, who hurteth farre, and neare.
Where spytefull men, theire owne tormentors bee.
But bothe be bad, and he that is the beste,
God keepe him thence, where honest men doe reste.
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