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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Turpibus exitium.
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Turpibus exitium.
The Scarabee, cannot indure the sente
Of fragant rose, moste bewtifull to see:
But filthie smelles, hee alwaies doth frequent,
And roses sweete, doe make him pine and die:
His howse, is donge: and wormes his neighbours are,
And for his meate, his mansion is his fare.
Of fragant rose, moste bewtifull to see:
But filthie smelles, hee alwaies doth frequent,
And roses sweete, doe make him pine and die:
His howse, is donge: and wormes his neighbours are,
And for his meate, his mansion is his fare.
With theise hee liues, and doth reioice for aie,
And buzzeth freshe, when night doth take her place,
From theise, he dies, and languisseth awaie:
So, whose delites are filthie, vile, and base,
Is sicke to heare, when counsaile sweete we giue,
And rather likes, with reprobates to liue.
Vos vbi contempti rupistis frena pudoris,
And buzzeth freshe, when night doth take her place,
From theise, he dies, and languisseth awaie:
So, whose delites are filthie, vile, and base,
Is sicke to heare, when counsaile sweete we giue,
And rather likes, with reprobates to liue.
Nescitis captæ mentis habere modum.
Flamma per incensas citius sedetur aristas,
Fluminaque ad fontis sint reditura caput, &c.
Quám possit vestros quisquam reprehendere cursus,
Et rapidæ stimulos frangere nequitiæ.
Propert. 3, 17.
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