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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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus.
Where couetousnes the scepter doth supporte,
There, greedie gripes the Kinge dothe ofte extoll:
Bicause, he knowes they, doe but make a sporte,
His subiectes poore, to shaue, to pill, and poll?
And when he sees, that they are fatte, and full?
He cuttes them of, that he maye haue theire wolle?
There, greedie gripes the Kinge dothe ofte extoll:
Bicause, he knowes they, doe but make a sporte,
His subiectes poore, to shaue, to pill, and poll?
And when he sees, that they are fatte, and full?
He cuttes them of, that he maye haue theire wolle?
Vnto a sponge, theise are resembled righte:
Which drie at firste, when it with water swelles,
The hande that late did wette it, being lighte:
The same againe, the moisture quite expelles.
And to the flood, from whence it latelie came,
It runnes againe, with wringinge of the same.
Orbem iam totum victor Romanus habebat,
Which drie at firste, when it with water swelles,
The hande that late did wette it, being lighte:
The same againe, the moisture quite expelles.
And to the flood, from whence it latelie came,
It runnes againe, with wringinge of the same.
Quà mare, quà terræ, quà sidus currit vtrumque,
Nec satiatus erat, grauidis freta pulsa carinis,
Iam peragrabantur, si quis sinus abditus vltra,
Si qua foret tellus, quæ fuluum mitteret aurum, &c.
Petrus Arbiter.
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