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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Cum tempore mutamur.
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Cum tempore mutamur.
Ad Dn. Iohannem Croxton.
Times change, and wee doe alter in the same,
And in one staye, there nothing still maye bee:
What Monarches greate, that wanne the chiefest fame,
But stealinge time, their birthe, and deathe, did see:
Firste Nestor suck'd, and Homer first was taughte,
Bothe famous once, yet both to dust are broughte.
And in one staye, there nothing still maye bee:
What Monarches greate, that wanne the chiefest fame,
But stealinge time, their birthe, and deathe, did see:
Firste Nestor suck'd, and Homer first was taughte,
Bothe famous once, yet both to dust are broughte.
Wee first are younge, and then to age we yeelde,
Then flit awaye, as we had not bene borne:
No wight so stronge, but time doth winne the feelde,
Yea wonders once, are out of memorie worne:
This Ægypte spires, and Babell, sawe in fine,
When they did mounte, and when they did decline.
Fœlix qui propriis æuum transegit in auris,
Then flit awaye, as we had not bene borne:
No wight so stronge, but time doth winne the feelde,
Yea wonders once, are out of memorie worne:
This Ægypte spires, and Babell, sawe in fine,
When they did mounte, and when they did decline.
Ipsa domus puerum quem vïdet ipsa senem;
Qui baculo nitens, in qua reptauit arena,
Vnius numerat sæcula longa casæ:
Illum non vario traxit fortuna tumultu,
Nec bibit ignotas mobilis hospes aquas.
Claud. de Senec. Veronensi.
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