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 Bello, pax.
To Hvghe Cholmeley Esquier.
The helmet stronge, that did the head defende,
Beholde, for hyue, the bees in quiet seru'd:
And when that warres, with bloodie bloes, had ende.
They, hony wroughte, where souldiour was preseru'd:
Which doth declare, the blessed fruites of peace,
How sweete shee is, when mortall warres doe cease.
Pax me certa ducis placidos curuauit in vsus:
Agricolæ nunc slum, militis ante fui.
De falce ex ense, Martialis.
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