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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Interdum requiescendum.
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Interdum requiescendum.
Ad Dn. Petrvm Colvivm Brugensem.
Continval toile, and labour is not beste:
But sometimes cease, and rest thy wearie bones,
The daie to worke, the nighte was made to reste,
And studentes must haue pastimes for the nones:
Sometime the Lute, the Chesse, or Bowe by fittes,
For ouermuch, dothe dull the finest wittes.
But sometimes cease, and rest thy wearie bones,
The daie to worke, the nighte was made to reste,
And studentes must haue pastimes for the nones:
Sometime the Lute, the Chesse, or Bowe by fittes,
For ouermuch, dothe dull the finest wittes.
For lacke of reste, the feilde dothe barren growe,
The winter coulde, not all the yeare doth raigne:
And dailie bent, doth weake the strongest bowe:
Yea our delightes still vs'd, wee doe disdaine.
Then rest by fittes, amongste your great affaires,
But not too muche, leste sloathe dothe set her snares.
------ Nec enim facundia semper
The winter coulde, not all the yeare doth raigne:
And dailie bent, doth weake the strongest bowe:
Yea our delightes still vs'd, wee doe disdaine.
Then rest by fittes, amongste your great affaires,
But not too muche, leste sloathe dothe set her snares.
Adducta cùm fronte placet: nec semper in armis
Bellica turba manet: nec tota classicus horror
Nocte diéque gemit: nec semper Cnossius arcu
Destinat, exempto sed laxat cornua neruo.
Et galea miles caput, & latus ense resoluit.
Lucanus ad Pisonem.
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