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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Impar coniugium.
To Aphilus.
The tyraunt vile Mezentivs, put in vre,
Amongst the plagues, wherewith hee murthered men:
To binde the quicke, and dead, togeather sure,
And then, to throwe them both into a denne.
Whereas the quicke, should still the dead imbrace,
Vntill with pine, hee turn'd into that case.
Amongst the plagues, wherewith hee murthered men:
To binde the quicke, and dead, togeather sure,
And then, to throwe them both into a denne.
Whereas the quicke, should still the dead imbrace,
Vntill with pine, hee turn'd into that case.
Those wedding webbes, which some doe weaue with ruthe,
As when the one, with straunge disease doth pine:
Or when as age, bee coupled vnto youthe,
And those that hate, inforced are to ioyne,
This representes: and doth those parentes showe,
Are tyrauntes meere, who ioyne their children soe.
As when the one, with straunge disease doth pine:
Or when as age, bee coupled vnto youthe,
And those that hate, inforced are to ioyne,
This representes: and doth those parentes showe,
Are tyrauntes meere, who ioyne their children soe.
Yet manie are, who not the cause regarde,
The birthe, the yeares, nor vertues of the minde:
For goulde is first, with greedie men prefer'de,
And loue is laste, and likinge set behinde:
But parentes harde, that matches make for goodes:
Can not be free, from guilte of childrens bloodes.
Quàm malè inæquales veniunt ad aratra iuuenci,
The birthe, the yeares, nor vertues of the minde:
For goulde is first, with greedie men prefer'de,
And loue is laste, and likinge set behinde:
But parentes harde, that matches make for goodes:
Can not be free, from guilte of childrens bloodes.
Tam premitur magno coniuge nupta minor.
Ouid. Epist. 3.
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