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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Cn. Pompeius Magnus.
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Cn. Pompeius Magnus.
Celsa potestatis species.
When Pompey great, with fortune longe was bleste,
And did subdue his foes, by lande, and sea,
And conquestes great obtained in the Easte,
And Parthians, and Arabians, made obaye,
And seas, and Iles, did in subiection bringe,
Whose name with feare, did throughe Ivdæa ringe.
And did subdue his foes, by lande, and sea,
And conquestes great obtained in the Easte,
And Parthians, and Arabians, made obaye,
And seas, and Iles, did in subiection bringe,
Whose name with feare, did throughe Ivdæa ringe.
And had restor'de kinge Masinissas righte,
And ouercame Sertorivs with his power:
And made the Kinge of Pontvs knowe his mighte.
Yet, at the lengthe, hee had his haplesse hower:
For ouercome by Cæsar, fled for aide,
To Ægypte lande; wherein hee was betrai'd.
And ouercame Sertorivs with his power:
And made the Kinge of Pontvs knowe his mighte.
Yet, at the lengthe, hee had his haplesse hower:
For ouercome by Cæsar, fled for aide,
To Ægypte lande; wherein hee was betrai'd.
Within whose ringe, this forme aboue was wroughte,
Whereby, his force, and noble minde appeares;
Which, with his head to Cæsar being broughte,
For inwarde griefe, hee wash'd the same with teares,
And in a fire with odours, and perfumes:
This princes head with mourning hee consumes.
Whereby, his force, and noble minde appeares;
Which, with his head to Cæsar being broughte,
For inwarde griefe, hee wash'd the same with teares,
And in a fire with odours, and perfumes:
This princes head with mourning hee consumes.
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