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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Durum telum necessitas.
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Durum telum necessitas.
Necessitie doth vrge, the Popiniaye to prate,And birdes, to drawe their bucketts vp, and picke theire meate through, grate:
Which warneth them, whoe needes must eyther serue, or pine:
With willing harte, no paines to shunne, and freedome to resigne.
Placet tibi factum mitio? M I. non si queam
Mutare: nunc, cum nequeo, æquo animo fero.
Terent. in Adel. 4. 7.
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