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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Mihi pondera, luxus.
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Mihi pondera, luxus.
When autumne ripes, the frutefull fieldes of graine,
And Ceres doth in all her pompe appeare,
The heauie eare, doth breake the stalke in twaine,
Wherebie wee see, this by experience cleare:
Hir owne excesse, did cause her proper spoile,
And made her corne, to rotte vppon the soile.
And Ceres doth in all her pompe appeare,
The heauie eare, doth breake the stalke in twaine,
Wherebie wee see, this by experience cleare:
Hir owne excesse, did cause her proper spoile,
And made her corne, to rotte vppon the soile.
Soe worldlie wealthe, and great aboundaunce, marres:
The sharpenes of our sences, and our wittes,
And oftentimes, our vnderstanding barres,
And dulles the same, with manie carefull fittes:
Then since Excesse procures our spoile and paine,
The meane preferre, before immoderate gaine.
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The sharpenes of our sences, and our wittes,
And oftentimes, our vnderstanding barres,
And dulles the same, with manie carefull fittes:
Then since Excesse procures our spoile and paine,
The meane preferre, before immoderate gaine.
Luxuries prædulce malum, quæ dedita semper
Corporis arbitriis, hebetat caligine sensus
Membraque Circæis effeminat acrius herbis.
Claud. 2.
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