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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Non locus virum, sed vir locum ornat.
To the Honorable Sir Phillip Sidney Knight,
Gouernour of the Garrison and towne of Vlissing.
The trampinge steede, that champes the burnish'd bitte,
Is mannag'd braue, with ryders for the nones:
But, when the foole vppon his backe doth sette,
He throwes him downe, and ofte doth bruse his bones,
His corage feirce, dothe craue a better guide,
And eke such horse, the foole shoulde not bestride.
Is mannag'd braue, with ryders for the nones:
But, when the foole vppon his backe doth sette,
He throwes him downe, and ofte doth bruse his bones,
His corage feirce, dothe craue a better guide,
And eke such horse, the foole shoulde not bestride.
By which is ment, that men of iudgement graue,
Of learning, witte, and eeke of conscience cleare,
In highe estate, are fitte theire seates to haue,
And to be stall'd, in sacred iustice cheare:
Wherein they rule, vnto theire endlesse fame,
But fooles are foil'd, and throwne out of the san.
------ magnum hoc ego duco,
Of learning, witte, and eeke of conscience cleare,
In highe estate, are fitte theire seates to haue,
And to be stall'd, in sacred iustice cheare:
Wherein they rule, vnto theire endlesse fame,
But fooles are foil'd, and throwne out of the san.
Quòd placuit tibi, qui turpi secernis honestum.
Horat. 1, Ser. 6.
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