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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Pœna sequens.
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Pœna sequens.
When silent nighte, did scepter take in hande,
And dim'de the daie, with shade of mantle blacke,
What time the theeues, in priuie corners stande,
And haue noe dowte, to robbe for what they lacke:
A greedie theefe, in shambles broke a shoppe,
And fil'de a sacke, with fleshe vp to the toppe.
And dim'de the daie, with shade of mantle blacke,
What time the theeues, in priuie corners stande,
And haue noe dowte, to robbe for what they lacke:
A greedie theefe, in shambles broke a shoppe,
And fil'de a sacke, with fleshe vp to the toppe.
Which done, with speede he lifted vp the sacke,
And bothe the endes, abowt his necke he knittes,
And ranne awaie, with burden on his backe
Till afterwardes, as hee at alehowse sittes:
The heauie loade, did weye so harde behinde,
That whiles he slept, the weighte did stoppe his winde.
And bothe the endes, abowt his necke he knittes,
And ranne awaie, with burden on his backe
Till afterwardes, as hee at alehowse sittes:
The heauie loade, did weye so harde behinde,
That whiles he slept, the weighte did stoppe his winde.
Which truelie showes, to them that doe offende,
Althowghe a while, they scape theire iust desertes,
Yet punishment, dothe at theire backes attende,
And plagues them hoame, when they haue meriest hartes:
And thoughe longe time, they doe escape the pikes,
Yet soone, or late, the Lorde in iustice strikes.
Althowghe a while, they scape theire iust desertes,
Yet punishment, dothe at theire backes attende,
And plagues them hoame, when they haue meriest hartes:
And thoughe longe time, they doe escape the pikes,
Yet soone, or late, the Lorde in iustice strikes.
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