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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Uarij hominum sensus.
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Uarij hominum sensus.
To Sir Henry Woodhowse Knight.
An aged dame, in reuerence of the dead,
With care did place, the sculles of men shee founde,
Vppon an hill, as in a sacred bed,
But as shee toil'de, shee stumbled to the grounde:
Whereat, downe fell the heades within her lappe,
And here, and there, they ranne abowt the hill:
With that, quoth shee, no maruaile is this happe,
Since men aliue, in myndes do differ still:
And like as theise, in sunder downe do fall,
So varried they, in their opinions all.
Mille hominum species, & rerum discolor vsus.
Velle suum cuique est, nec voto viuitur vno.
Mercibus hic Italis, mutat sub sole recenti
Rugosum piper, & pallentis grana cumini:
Hic satur irriguo mauult turgescere somno:
Hic campo indulget, hunc alea decoquit: &c.
Persius 5.
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