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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Auaritia huius sæculi.
To Arthvre Bovrchier Esquier.
With double dore this Pallace loe, doth ope;
The one, vnto the gallant roomes doth shewe,
Whereas the ritche with goulden giftes haue scope;
The other, to an emptie benche doth goe,
And there, the pore haue leaue for to resorte,
But not presume vnto the other porte.
The one, vnto the gallant roomes doth shewe,
Whereas the ritche with goulden giftes haue scope;
The other, to an emptie benche doth goe,
And there, the pore haue leaue for to resorte,
But not presume vnto the other porte.
For, alwaies that is shutte vnto the pore,
But ope to them, that haue the mines of goulde:
Then, thoughe the worlde of Poëttes haue no store,
No maruaile tho, sith bountie is so coulde;
For, if there did Mecoenas giftes abounde,
Newe Horace soone, & Virgil should be founde.
Ingenium sacri miraris abesse Maronis,
But ope to them, that haue the mines of goulde:
Then, thoughe the worlde of Poëttes haue no store,
No maruaile tho, sith bountie is so coulde;
For, if there did Mecoenas giftes abounde,
Newe Horace soone, & Virgil should be founde.
Nec quenquam tanta bella sonare tuba:
Sint Mæcenates, non deerunt Flacce, Marones;
Virgiliumque tibi vel tua rura dabunt.
Martial. lib. 8. Epig. 55. ad Flaccum.
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