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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Interminabilis humanæ vitæ labor.
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Interminabilis humanæ vitæ labor.
To M. Iohn Gostlinge.
Loe Sisyphvs, that roles the restlesse stone
To toppe of hill, with endlesse toile, and paine:
Which beinge there, it tumbleth doune alone,
And then, the wretche must force it vp againe:
And as it falles, he makes it still ascende;
And yet, no toile can bringe this worke to ende.
To toppe of hill, with endlesse toile, and paine:
Which beinge there, it tumbleth doune alone,
And then, the wretche must force it vp againe:
And as it falles, he makes it still ascende;
And yet, no toile can bringe this worke to ende.
This Sisyphvs: presenteth Adams race.
The restlesse stone: their trauaile, and their toile:
The hill, dothe shewe the daye, and eeke the space,
Wherein they still doe labour, worke, and moile.
And thoughe till nighte they striue the hill to clime,
Yet vp againe, the morning nexte betime.
The restlesse stone: their trauaile, and their toile:
The hill, dothe shewe the daye, and eeke the space,
Wherein they still doe labour, worke, and moile.
And thoughe till nighte they striue the hill to clime,
Yet vp againe, the morning nexte betime.
Vita humana propriè vti ferrum est: Ferrum si exerceas, conteritur: si non exerceas, tamen rubigo interficit. Item homines exercendo videmus conteri. Si nihil exerceas, inertia atque torpedo plus detrimenti facit, quàm exercitatio.
Aul. Gell. lib. 11. ca. 2.
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