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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Dura vsu molliora.
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Dura vsu molliora.
When first the foxe, the lyon did behoulde,Hee quak'd for feare, and almost dead did fall:
The second time, he waxed somewhat boulde;
But at the third, hee had no feare at all.
Which shewes, that artes at first moste harde to see,
With triall oft, both playne, and easie bee.
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