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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Ex damno alterius, alterius vtilitas.
The Lion fierce, and sauage bore contende,
The one, his pawes: his tuskes the other tries:
And ere the broile, with bloodie blowes had ende,
A vulture loe, attendes with watchinge eies:
And of their spoile, doth hope to præie his fill,
And ioyes, when they eche others blood doe spill.
The one, his pawes: his tuskes the other tries:
And ere the broile, with bloodie blowes had ende,
A vulture loe, attendes with watchinge eies:
And of their spoile, doth hope to præie his fill,
And ioyes, when they eche others blood doe spill.
When men of mighte, with deadlie rancor swell,
And mortall hate, twixte mightie Monarches raignes;
Some gripes doe watche, that like the matter well,
And of their losse, doe raise their priuate gaines:
So, Soliman his Empire did increase,
When christian kinges exiled loue, and peace.
Hic magnus sedet Æneas secumque volutat
And mortall hate, twixte mightie Monarches raignes;
Some gripes doe watche, that like the matter well,
And of their losse, doe raise their priuate gaines:
So, Soliman his Empire did increase,
When christian kinges exiled loue, and peace.
Euentus belli varios, &c.
Virg. Aeneid. 10.
Et pendebat adhuc belli fortuna, diuque
Inter vtrumque volat dubiis victoria pennis.
Ouid. Metam. 7.
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