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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Sic ætas fugit.
To M. Iames Ionson.
Two horses free, a thirde doe swiftlie chace,
The one, is white, the other, blacke of hewe:
None, bridles haue for to restraine their pace,
And thus, they bothe, the other still pursue:
And, neuer cease continuall course to make,
Vntill at lengthe, the first, they ouertake.
The one, is white, the other, blacke of hewe:
None, bridles haue for to restraine their pace,
And thus, they bothe, the other still pursue:
And, neuer cease continuall course to make,
Vntill at lengthe, the first, they ouertake.
This formost horse, that ronnes so fast awaye,
It is our time; while heere, our race wee ronne:
The blacke, and white, presenteth nighte, and daye:
Who after hast, vntill the goale bee wonne;
And leaue vs not, but followe from our birthe,
Vntill wee yeelde, and turne againe to earthe.
Labitur occultè, fallitque volatilis ætas,
It is our time; while heere, our race wee ronne:
The blacke, and white, presenteth nighte, and daye:
Who after hast, vntill the goale bee wonne;
And leaue vs not, but followe from our birthe,
Vntill wee yeelde, and turne againe to earthe.
Et celer admissis labitur annus equis.
Ouid. 1. Amor. 8.
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