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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Nullus dolus contra Casum.
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Nullus dolus contra Casum.
Behowlde the craftie foxe,
Vppon Danubius plaies,
What time throwgh froste, both man, and beaste,
Thereon did make their waies.
Vppon Danubius plaies,
What time throwgh froste, both man, and beaste,
Thereon did make their waies.
At lengthe, with Phoebvs beames,
The froste began to slake:
So that the yce with swelling streame,
To sundrie peeces brake.
The froste began to slake:
So that the yce with swelling streame,
To sundrie peeces brake.
Where, on a peece the foxe,
Doth to his tackling stande:
And in the sighte of Regenspurge,
Came driuing by the Lande.
Doth to his tackling stande:
And in the sighte of Regenspurge,
Came driuing by the Lande.
At which, the townesmen laugh'de,
And saied, this foxe, on Ice:
Doth shewe, no subtill crafte will serue,
When Chaunce doth throwe the dice.
Regitur fatis mortale genus:
And saied, this foxe, on Ice:
Doth shewe, no subtill crafte will serue,
When Chaunce doth throwe the dice.
Nec sibi quisquam spondere potest
Firmum, & stabile: perque casus
Voluitur varios semper nobis
Metuenda dies, &c.
Seneca in Oed.
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