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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The greedie kyte, so full his gorge had cloy'de,
He coulde not brooke his late deuoured praie:
Wherefore with griefe, vnto his damme hee cry'de,
My bowelles lo, alas doe waste awaie.
With that quoth shee, why doste thou make thy mone,
This losse thou haste is nothinge of thy owne.
He coulde not brooke his late deuoured praie:
Wherefore with griefe, vnto his damme hee cry'de,
My bowelles lo, alas doe waste awaie.
With that quoth shee, why doste thou make thy mone,
This losse thou haste is nothinge of thy owne.
By which is mente, that they who liue by spoile,
By rapine, thefte, or gripinge goodes by mighte,
If that with losse they suffer anie foile,
They loose but that, wherein they had no righte?
Hereof, at firste the prouerbe oulde did growe:
That goodes ill got, awaie as ill will goe.
By rapine, thefte, or gripinge goodes by mighte,
If that with losse they suffer anie foile,
They loose but that, wherein they had no righte?
Hereof, at firste the prouerbe oulde did growe:
That goodes ill got, awaie as ill will goe.
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