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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Marcus Scæua.
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Marcus Scæua.
Audaces fortuna iuuat.
This monumente of manhoode, yet remaines,
A witnes true, of Marcvs Scævas harte:
Whose valliancie, did purchase him such gaines,
That deathe, nor time, can blemishe his deserte.
In battaile, boulde: no feare his harte coulde wounde,
When sixe-score shaftes within his shielde weare founde,
A witnes true, of Marcvs Scævas harte:
Whose valliancie, did purchase him such gaines,
That deathe, nor time, can blemishe his deserte.
In battaile, boulde: no feare his harte coulde wounde,
When sixe-score shaftes within his shielde weare founde,
And in that fighte, one of his eies hee loste,
His thighe thrust throughe, and wounded sore beside:
Such souldiours, had greate Cæsar in his hoste,
As by him selfe, and others, is discride.
But, those that would more of these Knightes behoulde,
Let them peruse the Roman Aucthours oulde.
His thighe thrust throughe, and wounded sore beside:
Such souldiours, had greate Cæsar in his hoste,
As by him selfe, and others, is discride.
But, those that would more of these Knightes behoulde,
Let them peruse the Roman Aucthours oulde.
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