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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Minuit præsentia famam.
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Minuit præsentia famam.
Reporte, did ringe the snowe did hide the hilles,
And valleys lowe, there with alofte did rise:
Which newes, with dowte the hartes of manie filles,
And Cowardes made, for feare at home to friese:
But those that went, the truthe hereof to knowe,
When that they came, might safelie passe the snowe.
And valleys lowe, there with alofte did rise:
Which newes, with dowte the hartes of manie filles,
And Cowardes made, for feare at home to friese:
But those that went, the truthe hereof to knowe,
When that they came, might safelie passe the snowe.
For whie, the Sonne did make the same to waste,
And all about, discouered had the grounde:
So, thoughe ofte times the simple bee agaste,
When that reportes, of this, or that, doe sounde,
Yet if they firste, woulde seeke the truthe to knowe,
They ofte shoulde finde, the matter nothing soe.
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit cundo,
And all about, discouered had the grounde:
So, thoughe ofte times the simple bee agaste,
When that reportes, of this, or that, doe sounde,
Yet if they firste, woulde seeke the truthe to knowe,
They ofte shoulde finde, the matter nothing soe.
Parua metu primo, mox sese attollit in auras, &c.
Virg. lib. 4. Æneid in descrip. famæ.
Nocte dieque patet: tota est ex ære sonanti,
Tota fremit, vocesque refert, iterátque quod audit, &c.
Et Ouid. Metam, lib. 12. De domo famæ sic,
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