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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Ad ornatiss, virum Dn. Petrvm Withipole. Petre, imitare petram.
What Ivnivs sent his sonne, lo, here I send to thee?
Bycause his name, and Nature both, with thyne doe well agree.
Bycause his name, and Nature both, with thyne doe well agree.
Dispise all pleasures vayne, hould vertue by the hand,
And as in rage of wyndes, and Seas, the Rocke doth firmely stande.
And as in rage of wyndes, and Seas, the Rocke doth firmely stande.
So stand thou allwayes sure, that thou maist liue with fame,
Remembring how the Latins sounde a Rocke so like thy name.
Permanet in voto mens mea firma suo.
Remembring how the Latins sounde a Rocke so like thy name.
Ouid. Epist. 15.
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