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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Cæcus amor prolis.
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Cæcus amor prolis.
With kindenes, lo, the Ape doth kill her whelpe,Throughe clasping harde, and lulling in her armes.
Euen so, the babes, whose nature, Arte shoulde helpe:
The parents fonde doe hazarde them with harmes,
And worke their spoile, and bringe them vnto naughte,
When foolishe loue forbiddes them to bee taughte.
Admirata putat formosum Simia fœtum:
Nempe solet pulchrum cuique placere suum.
Nic. Reusnerus.
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