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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Let maidens sowe; let schollers: plie the schooles.
Giue Palinvre: his compasse, and his carde.
Let Mars, haue armes: let Vvlcane, vse his tooles.
Giue Corydon, the ploughe, and harrowe harde.
Giue Pan, the pipe: giue bilbowe blade, to swashe.
Let Grimme haue coales: and lobbe his whippe to lashe.
Giue Palinvre: his compasse, and his carde.
Let Mars, haue armes: let Vvlcane, vse his tooles.
Giue Corydon, the ploughe, and harrowe harde.
Giue Pan, the pipe: giue bilbowe blade, to swashe.
Let Grimme haue coales: and lobbe his whippe to lashe.
Let none presume an others arte to vse,
But trie the trade, to which he hath bene kept:
But those that like a skill vnknowne to choose,
Let them behoulde: while that the workeman slept,
The toying ape, was tempringe with his blockes,
Vntill his foote was crush'd within the stockes.
Nauita de ventis; de tauris narrat arator;
But trie the trade, to which he hath bene kept:
But those that like a skill vnknowne to choose,
Let them behoulde: while that the workeman slept,
The toying ape, was tempringe with his blockes,
Vntill his foote was crush'd within the stockes.
Enumerat miles vulnera; pastor oues.
Propert. 2. 1.
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