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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Amicitia fucata vitanda.
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Amicitia fucata vitanda.
Of open foes, wee alwaies maie beware,
And arme our selues, theire Malice to withstande:
Yea, thoughe they smile, yet haue wee still a care,
Wee trust them not, althoughe they giue theire hande:
Theire Foxes coate, theire fained harte bewraies,
Wee neede not doubt, bicause wee knowe theire waies.
And arme our selues, theire Malice to withstande:
Yea, thoughe they smile, yet haue wee still a care,
Wee trust them not, althoughe they giue theire hande:
Theire Foxes coate, theire fained harte bewraies,
Wee neede not doubt, bicause wee knowe theire waies.
But those, of whome wee must in daunger bee,
Are deadlie foes, that doe in secret lurke,
Whoe lie in waite, when that wee can not see,
And vnawares, doe our destruction worke:
No foe so fell, (as Bias wise declares)
As man to man, when mischeife hee prepares.
Pernicies homini quæ maxima? solus homo alter.
Are deadlie foes, that doe in secret lurke,
Whoe lie in waite, when that wee can not see,
And vnawares, doe our destruction worke:
No foe so fell, (as Bias wise declares)
As man to man, when mischeife hee prepares.
Bias
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