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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D. O. M.
Since man is fraile, and all his thoughtes are sinne,And of him selfe he can no good inuent,
Then euerie one, before they oughte beginne,
Should call on God, from whome all grace is sent:
So, I beseeche, that he the same will sende,
That, to his praise J maie beginne, and ende.
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