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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In iuuentam.
Two sonnes of Iove that best of man deserue,
Apollo great, and Bacchvs, this impartes:
With diet good, the one doth healthe preserue,
With pleasante wine, the other cheares our hartes.
And theise, the worlde immortall Goddes would haue,
Bicause longe life, with sweete delighte, they gaue.
Apollo great, and Bacchvs, this impartes:
With diet good, the one doth healthe preserue,
With pleasante wine, the other cheares our hartes.
And theise, the worlde immortall Goddes would haue,
Bicause longe life, with sweete delighte, they gaue.
But if theise are so soueraigne vnto man,
That here, with ioye they doe increase his daies,
And freshe doe make the carefull colour wanne:
And keepe him longe from sicknes, and disease:
I graunte, they ought to be renowmed more,
Then all the Goddes, the Poëttes did adore.
Tu vino curas, tu victu dilue morbos,
That here, with ioye they doe increase his daies,
And freshe doe make the carefull colour wanne:
And keepe him longe from sicknes, and disease:
I graunte, they ought to be renowmed more,
Then all the Goddes, the Poëttes did adore.
Vt lento accedat curua senecta pede.
Alciat. ad eosdem sie.
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