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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Nec verbo, nec facto, quenquam lædendum.
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Nec verbo, nec facto, quenquam lædendum.
Heare, Nemesis the Goddesse iuste dothe stande,With bended arme, to measure all our waies,
A raine shee houldes, with in the other hande,
With biting bitte, where with the lewde shee staies:
And pulles them backe, when harme they doe intende,
Or when they take in wicked speeche delite,
And biddes them still beware for to offende,
And square theire deedes, in all thinges vnto righte:
But wicked Impes, that lewdlie runne their race,
Shee hales them backe, at lengthe to theire deface.
Est dea: quæ vacuo sublimis in aëre pendens
It nimbo succincta latus: sed candida palam:
Sed radiata comam: ac stridentibus insonat alis.
Hæc spes immodicas premit: hæc infesta superbis
Imminet: huic celsas hominum contundere mentes,
Successusque datum: & nimios turbare paratus.
Quam veteres Nemesim &c.
& paulò pòst:
Improba vota domans: ac summis ima reuoluens
Miscet: & alternanostros vice temperat actus, &c.
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