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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Ludus, luctus, luxus.
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Ludus, luctus, luxus.
Behovlde the fruites of dronkennesse, and plaie:
Here corage, brawles with Cutthroate for a caste,
And ofte in fine, if that they lacke to paie,
They sweare it out, or blade it at the laste:
This, frendshippe breakes: this, makes vs laugh'd to scorne,
And beggerie giues, to those that riche are borne.
Here corage, brawles with Cutthroate for a caste,
And ofte in fine, if that they lacke to paie,
They sweare it out, or blade it at the laste:
This, frendshippe breakes: this, makes vs laugh'd to scorne,
And beggerie giues, to those that riche are borne.
The Lapithans, by drinke weare ouerthrowne,
The wisest men, with follie this inflames:
What shoulde I speake, of father Noah aloane,
Or bring in Lott, or Holofernes names:
This Simon, and his sonnes, did ouerthrowe,
And Benedab, made flee before his foe.
The wisest men, with follie this inflames:
What shoulde I speake, of father Noah aloane,
Or bring in Lott, or Holofernes names:
This Simon, and his sonnes, did ouerthrowe,
And Benedab, made flee before his foe.
And he that lik'd to spende his time at dice,
This lawe in Rome, Severvs did prouide:
That euerie man, shoulde deeme him as a vice,
And of his Landes, an other shoulde bee guide:
Like Lawes beside, did diuers more deuise,
And wisedome still, againste suche vnthriftes cries.
Tune sumus incauti, studioque aperimur abipso,
This lawe in Rome, Severvs did prouide:
That euerie man, shoulde deeme him as a vice,
And of his Landes, an other shoulde bee guide:
Like Lawes beside, did diuers more deuise,
And wisedome still, againste suche vnthriftes cries.
Nudaque per lusus pectora nostra patent.
Ira subit desorme malum, lucrique Cupido
Iurgiaque & rixæ, sollicitusque dolor,
Crimina dicuntur, resonat clamoribus æther,
Inuocat iratos & sibi quisque deos.
Ouidius.
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