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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Semper præsto esse infortunia.
Three carelesse dames, amongste their wanton toies,
Did throwe the dice, who firste of them shoulde die:
And shee that loste, did laughe with inwarde ioyes,
For that, shee thoughte her terme shoulde longer bee:
But loe, a tyle vppon her head did fall,
That deathe, with speede, this dame from dice did call.
Did throwe the dice, who firste of them shoulde die:
And shee that loste, did laughe with inwarde ioyes,
For that, shee thoughte her terme shoulde longer bee:
But loe, a tyle vppon her head did fall,
That deathe, with speede, this dame from dice did call.
Euen so, it falles, while carelesse times wee spende:
That euell happes, vnlooked for doe comme.
But if wee hope, that God some good wil sende,
In earnest praier, then must wee not bee domme:
For blessinges good, come seild before our praier,
But euell thinges doe come before we feare.
Ludit in humanis diuina potentia rebus,
That euell happes, vnlooked for doe comme.
But if wee hope, that God some good wil sende,
In earnest praier, then must wee not bee domme:
For blessinges good, come seild before our praier,
But euell thinges doe come before we feare.
Et certam præsens vix habet hora fidem.
Ouid. 4. Pont. 3.
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