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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Animi scrinium seruitus.
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Animi scrinium seruitus.
Ad ornatum virum, D. Ellisevm Gryphith.
The Prouerbe saithe, the bounde muste still obey,
And bondage bringes, the freest man in awe:
Whoe serues must please, and heare what other saye,
And learne to keepe Harpocrates his lawe:
Then bondage is the Prison of the minde:
And makes them mute, where wisedome is by kinde.
And bondage bringes, the freest man in awe:
Whoe serues must please, and heare what other saye,
And learne to keepe Harpocrates his lawe:
Then bondage is the Prison of the minde:
And makes them mute, where wisedome is by kinde.
The Nightingall, that chaunteth all the springe,
Whose warblinge notes, throughout the wooddes are harde,
Beinge kepte in cage, she ceaseth for to singe,
And mournes, bicause her libertie is barde:
Oh bondage vile, the worthie mans deface,
Bee farre from those, that learning doe imbrace.
Whose warblinge notes, throughout the wooddes are harde,
Beinge kepte in cage, she ceaseth for to singe,
And mournes, bicause her libertie is barde:
Oh bondage vile, the worthie mans deface,
Bee farre from those, that learning doe imbrace.
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