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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Furor & rabies.
The crewell kinges, that are inflam'de with ire:
With fier, and sworde, theire furious mindes suffise:
And ofte to showe, what chiefelie they desire,
Within theire sheildes, they dreadefull shapes deuise,
Some Griphins feirce, some ramping Lions beare,
Some Tygers fell, or Dragons like to weare.
With fier, and sworde, theire furious mindes suffise:
And ofte to showe, what chiefelie they desire,
Within theire sheildes, they dreadefull shapes deuise,
Some Griphins feirce, some ramping Lions beare,
Some Tygers fell, or Dragons like to weare.
All which bewraye, theire inwarde bloodie thoughte,
Suche one, behoulde, kinge Agamemnon was:
Who had in shielde, a ramping Lion wroughte
And eke this verse, was grauen in the brasse:
Mannes terror this, to feare them that behoulde:
Which shielde is borne, by Agamemnon boulde.
Dum furor in cursu est, currenti cede furori:
Suche one, behoulde, kinge Agamemnon was:
Who had in shielde, a ramping Lion wroughte
And eke this verse, was grauen in the brasse:
Mannes terror this, to feare them that behoulde:
Which shielde is borne, by Agamemnon boulde.
Difficiles aditus impetus omnis habet.
Ouid. 1. Remed.
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