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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Jnimicorum dona, infausta.
If of thy foe, thow doest a gifte receaue,
Esteeme it not, for feare the fates doe lower,
And with the gifte, ofte tyme thie life doe reaue,
Yea giftes wee reade, haue suche a secret power,
That oftentimes, they Lyncevs eies doe blinde,
And he that giues, the taker faste doth binde.
Esteeme it not, for feare the fates doe lower,
And with the gifte, ofte tyme thie life doe reaue,
Yea giftes wee reade, haue suche a secret power,
That oftentimes, they Lyncevs eies doe blinde,
And he that giues, the taker faste doth binde.
To Aiax heare, a sworde did Hector sende,
A girdle stronge, to him did Aiax yeelde,
With Hectors gifte, did Aiax woorke his ende,
And Aiax gifte, hal'de Hector throughe the fielde:
Of mortall foes, then see noe gifte thow take,
Althoughe a while, a truce with them thow make.
------ aut vlla putatis
A girdle stronge, to him did Aiax yeelde,
With Hectors gifte, did Aiax woorke his ende,
And Aiax gifte, hal'de Hector throughe the fielde:
Of mortall foes, then see noe gifte thow take,
Althoughe a while, a truce with them thow make.
Dona carere dolis Danaum, &c.
Sic titulo obsequij, quæ mittunt hostibus hostes
Munera, venturi præscia fata ferunt.
Lacoon apud Virgilium lib. Æneid. 2. sic de equo. loquitur Troianis. Aleiar.
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