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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In auaros.
Septitivs ritche, a miser moste of all,
Whose liuinges large, and treasure did exceede:
Yet to his goodes, he was so much in thrall,
That still he vs'd on beetes, and rapes to feede:
So of his stoare, the sweete he neuer knewe,
And longe did robbe, his bellie of his due.
Whose liuinges large, and treasure did exceede:
Yet to his goodes, he was so much in thrall,
That still he vs'd on beetes, and rapes to feede:
So of his stoare, the sweete he neuer knewe,
And longe did robbe, his bellie of his due.
This Caitiffe wretche, with pined corpes lo heare,
Compared right vnto the foolishe asse,
Whose backe is fraighte with cates, and daintie cheare,
But to his share commes neither corne, nor grasse,
Yet beares he that, which settes his teeth on edge:
And pines him selfe, with thistle and with sedge.
Perditissimus ego sum omnium in terra,
Compared right vnto the foolishe asse,
Whose backe is fraighte with cates, and daintie cheare,
But to his share commes neither corne, nor grasse,
Yet beares he that, which settes his teeth on edge:
And pines him selfe, with thistle and with sedge.
Nam quid mihi opus vita est, qui tantum auri
Perdidi, quod custodiui seduló? egomet me fraudaui
Antmumque meum geniumque meum, &c.
Plautus in Aulul.
At nunc desertis cessant sacraria lucis,
Aurum omnes victa iam pietate, colunt.
Auro pulsa fides, auro venalia iura,
Aurum lex sequitur, mox sine lege pudor.
Propertius 3. 15.
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