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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Ei, qui semel sua prodegerit, aliena credi non oportere.
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Ei, qui semel sua prodegerit, aliena credi non oportere.
Medea loe with infante in her arme,
Whoe kil'de her babes, shee shoulde haue loued beste:
The swallowe yet, whoe did suspect no harme,
Hir Image likes, and hatch'd vppon her breste:
And lefte her younge, vnto this tirauntes guide,
Whoe, peecemeale did her proper fruicte diuide.
Whoe kil'de her babes, shee shoulde haue loued beste:
The swallowe yet, whoe did suspect no harme,
Hir Image likes, and hatch'd vppon her breste:
And lefte her younge, vnto this tirauntes guide,
Whoe, peecemeale did her proper fruicte diuide.
Oh foolishe birde, think'ste thow, shee will haue care,
Vppon thy yonge? Whoe hathe her owne destroy'de,
And maie it bee, that shee thie birdes should spare?
Whoe slue her owne, in whome shee shoulde haue ioy'd.
Thow arte deceau'de, and arte a warninge good,
To put no truste, in them that hate theire blood.
Medeæ statua est: natos cui credis Hirundo?
Vppon thy yonge? Whoe hathe her owne destroy'de,
And maie it bee, that shee thie birdes should spare?
Whoe slue her owne, in whome shee shoulde haue ioy'd.
Thow arte deceau'de, and arte a warninge good,
To put no truste, in them that hate theire blood.
Fer alio: viden' hæc mactet vt ipsa suos?
Borbonius.
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