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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Post fata: vxor morosa, etiam discors.
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Post fata: vxor morosa, etiam discors.
Colasmvs wife, in raging flood was drown'd?
Who longe did seeke her corpes, against the streame:
His neigbours thought his sences weare not sound?
And did deride his madnes most extreme:
Who call'd aloude, thy wife beneath did fall?
Then dounwarde seeke, or seeke thou not at all.
Who longe did seeke her corpes, against the streame:
His neigbours thought his sences weare not sound?
And did deride his madnes most extreme:
Who call'd aloude, thy wife beneath did fall?
Then dounwarde seeke, or seeke thou not at all.
To whome quoth he, the place belowe I see,
Yet in her life, gainst reason she did striue:
And contrarie to euerie one, woulde bee;
Wherefore, I knowe this way she needes must driue?
Then leaue, quoth they, and let her still be drown'd,
For such a wife is better loste then founde?
Yet in her life, gainst reason she did striue:
And contrarie to euerie one, woulde bee;
Wherefore, I knowe this way she needes must driue?
Then leaue, quoth they, and let her still be drown'd,
For such a wife is better loste then founde?
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