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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Noli tuba canere Eleemosynam.
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Noli tuba canere Eleemosynam.
When that thou giu'st thy almes vnto the pore,In secret giue, for God thy giftes doth see:
And openlie, will thee rewarde therfore.
But, if with trompe thy almes must publish'd bee,
Thou giu'st in vaine: sith thou therby dost showe,
Thy chiefe desire is, that the world maie knowe.
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