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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In eum qui sibi ipsi damnum apparat.
The rauening wolfe, by kinde my mortall foe,
Yet lo, infors'de, I foster vp her whelpe:
Who afterwarde, as it did stronger growe,
Thoughe as my owne, I longe the same did helpe:
Yet, coulde I not contente it with my teate,
But that my selfe, hee rent to be his meate.
Yet lo, infors'de, I foster vp her whelpe:
Who afterwarde, as it did stronger growe,
Thoughe as my owne, I longe the same did helpe:
Yet, coulde I not contente it with my teate,
But that my selfe, hee rent to be his meate.
No willinge minde, to please him might suffise,
No diligence, to geue the tyraunte sucke,
Though whelpishe daies, his nature did disguise,
Yet time at lengthe vnto my euell lucke,
Bewray'de his harte, a warninge good to those,
Whoe in theire howse, doe foster vp theire foes.
No diligence, to geue the tyraunte sucke,
Though whelpishe daies, his nature did disguise,
Yet time at lengthe vnto my euell lucke,
Bewray'de his harte, a warninge good to those,
Whoe in theire howse, doe foster vp theire foes.
For, thoughe throughe neede they frendlie seeme a while,
Or childishe yeares, do cloke their cancker'd minde,
Althoughe some doe, releeue them in exile,
And spend theire goodes, in hope to alter kinde:
Yet all theire loue, and care to doe them good,
Suche will forgett, and seeke to spill theire blood.
Or childishe yeares, do cloke their cancker'd minde,
Althoughe some doe, releeue them in exile,
And spend theire goodes, in hope to alter kinde:
Yet all theire loue, and care to doe them good,
Suche will forgett, and seeke to spill theire blood.
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