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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Nemo potest duobus dominis seruire.
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Nemo potest duobus dominis seruire.
To M. Knewstvb Preacher.
Here, man who first should heauenlie thinges attaine,
And then, to world his sences should incline:
First, vndergoes the worlde with might, and maine,
And then, at foote doth drawe the lawes deuine.
Thus God hee beares, and Mammon in his minde:
But Mammon first, and God doth come behinde.
And then, to world his sences should incline:
First, vndergoes the worlde with might, and maine,
And then, at foote doth drawe the lawes deuine.
Thus God hee beares, and Mammon in his minde:
But Mammon first, and God doth come behinde.
Oh worldlinges fonde, that ioyne these two so ill,
The league is nought, throwe doune the world vhich speede:
Take vp the lawe, according to his will.
First seeke for heauen, and then for wordly neede.
But those that first their wordlie wishe doe serue,
Their gaine, is losse, and seeke their soules to sterue.
The league is nought, throwe doune the world vhich speede:
Take vp the lawe, according to his will.
First seeke for heauen, and then for wordly neede.
But those that first their wordlie wishe doe serue,
Their gaine, is losse, and seeke their soules to sterue.
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