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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The wicked wretche, that mischiefe late hath wroughte,
By murther, thefte, or other heynous crimes,
With troubled minde, hee dowtes hee shalbe caughte,
And leaues the waie, and ouer hedges climes:
And standes in feare, of euerie busshe, and brake,
Yea oftentimes, his shaddowe makes him quake.
By murther, thefte, or other heynous crimes,
With troubled minde, hee dowtes hee shalbe caughte,
And leaues the waie, and ouer hedges climes:
And standes in feare, of euerie busshe, and brake,
Yea oftentimes, his shaddowe makes him quake.
A conscience cleare, is like a wall of brasse,
That dothe not shake, with euerie shotte that hittes:
Eauen soe there by, our liues wee quiet passe,
When guiltie mindes, are rack'de with fearfull fittes:
Then keepe thee pure, and soile thee not with sinne,
For after guilte, thine inwarde greifes beginne.
Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici.
That dothe not shake, with euerie shotte that hittes:
Eauen soe there by, our liues wee quiet passe,
When guiltie mindes, are rack'de with fearfull fittes:
Then keepe thee pure, and soile thee not with sinne,
For after guilte, thine inwarde greifes beginne.
Cato.
Conscia mens vt cuique sua est, ita concipit intra
Pectora, pro facto spemque, metumque suo.
Ouid. Fast. 1.
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