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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Jn vitam humanam.
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Jn vitam humanam.
The wicked worlde, so false and full of crime,
Did alwaies mooue Heraclitvs to weepe,
The fadinge ioyes, and follies of that time,
Democritvs did driue to laughter deepe,
Thus heynous sinne, and follie did procure
Theise famous men, suche passions to indure.
Did alwaies mooue Heraclitvs to weepe,
The fadinge ioyes, and follies of that time,
Democritvs did driue to laughter deepe,
Thus heynous sinne, and follie did procure
Theise famous men, suche passions to indure.
What if they liu'de, and shoulde behoulde this age
Which ouerflowes, with swellinge seas of sinne:
Where fooles, by swarmes, doe presse vppon the stage,
With hellishe Impes, that like haue neuer binne:
I thinke this sighte, shoulde hasten their decaye
Then helpe vs God, and Sathans furie staie.
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?
Which ouerflowes, with swellinge seas of sinne:
Where fooles, by swarmes, doe presse vppon the stage,
With hellishe Impes, that like haue neuer binne:
I thinke this sighte, shoulde hasten their decaye
Then helpe vs God, and Sathans furie staie.
Ætas paremum peior auis tulit
Nos nequiores, mox daturos
Progeniem vitiosiorem.
Horatius.
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