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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Sobriè potandum.
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Sobriè potandum.
A thirstie dogge, to Nilvs runnes to drinke,
A Crocodile, was readie in the flood:
Which made the dogge, to lappe harde by the brinke,
As one that much in feare of poisoning stood:
And sparingly, began to coole his heate,
When as hee sawe, this Serpent lye in waite.
A Crocodile, was readie in the flood:
Which made the dogge, to lappe harde by the brinke,
As one that much in feare of poisoning stood:
And sparingly, began to coole his heate,
When as hee sawe, this Serpent lye in waite.
This carefull dogge, condemnes those careles wightes,
Althoughe he bee of brutisshe kynde, bycause
Those reason lacke, that spend both daies, and nightes,
Without regard, in keeping Bacchvs lawes:
And when throughe drinke, on feete they can not stande,
Yet as they lye, they haue their boales in hande.
Cantharon hic retinet: cornu bibit alter adunco:
Althoughe he bee of brutisshe kynde, bycause
Those reason lacke, that spend both daies, and nightes,
Without regard, in keeping Bacchvs lawes:
And when throughe drinke, on feete they can not stande,
Yet as they lye, they haue their boales in hande.
Concauat ille manus, palmasque in pocula vertit:
Pronus at ille lacu bibit, & crepitantibus haurit
Musta labris, &c.
Nemes. Eclog. 3. contra potores.
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