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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The Poëttes faine, that DANAVS daughters deare,
Inioyned are to fill the fatall tonne:
Where, thowghe they toile, yet are they not the neare,
But as they powre, the water forthe dothe runne:
No paine will serue, to fill it to the toppe,
For, still at holes the same doth runne, and droppe.
Inioyned are to fill the fatall tonne:
Where, thowghe they toile, yet are they not the neare,
But as they powre, the water forthe dothe runne:
No paine will serue, to fill it to the toppe,
For, still at holes the same doth runne, and droppe.
Which reprehendes, three sortes of wretches vaine,
The blabbe, th' ingrate, and those that couet still,
As first, the blabbe, no secretts can retaine.
Th' ingrate, not knowes to vse his frendes good will.
The couetous man, thowghe he abounde with store
Is not suffis'de, but couetts more and more.
The blabbe, th' ingrate, and those that couet still,
As first, the blabbe, no secretts can retaine.
Th' ingrate, not knowes to vse his frendes good will.
The couetous man, thowghe he abounde with store
Is not suffis'de, but couetts more and more.
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