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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Curis tabescimus omnes.
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Curis tabescimus omnes.
If griping greifes, haue harbour in thie breste,
And pininge cares, laie seige vnto the same,
Or straunge conceiptes, doe reaue thee of thie rest,
And daie, and nighte, do bringe thee out of frame:
Then choose a freinde, and doe his counsaile craue,
Least secret sighes, doe bringe vntimelie graue.
And pininge cares, laie seige vnto the same,
Or straunge conceiptes, doe reaue thee of thie rest,
And daie, and nighte, do bringe thee out of frame:
Then choose a freinde, and doe his counsaile craue,
Least secret sighes, doe bringe vntimelie graue.
Continuall care, did Plinies harte possesse,
To knowe what caus'de Vesevvs hill to flame,
And ceased not, now this, nowe that, to gesse:
Yet, when hee coulde not comprehende the same,
Suche was his fate, pursuing his desier,
He headlonge fell into the flaming fier.
Non opibus mentes homini, curæque leuantur, &c.
To knowe what caus'de Vesevvs hill to flame,
And ceased not, now this, nowe that, to gesse:
Yet, when hee coulde not comprehende the same,
Suche was his fate, pursuing his desier,
He headlonge fell into the flaming fier.
Tibul lib. 3. cap. 3.
O Curas hominum, ô quantum est in rebus inane.
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