Minerva Britanna Or A Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, Newly devised, moralized, and published, By Henry Peacham |
 |
| I. |
| II. |
Silentÿ dignitas.
|
 | Minerva Britanna |  |
156
Silentÿ dignitas.
Loe
SOLON here th' Athenian sage doth stand,
The glorie of all GRECIA to this day,
With courage bold who taketh knife in hand,
And with the same, doth cut his tongue away:
But being ask'd of some, the reason why,
By writing thus he answer'd by and by.
The glorie of all GRECIA to this day,
With courage bold who taketh knife in hand,
And with the same, doth cut his tongue away:
But being ask'd of some, the reason why,
By writing thus he answer'd by and by.
Oft haue I heard, that many haue sustained,
Much losse by talke, and lavishnes of tongue,
Of silence never any yet complained,
Or could say iustly, it had done him wrong:
Who knowes to speake, and when to hold his peace,
Findes fewest daungers, and liues best at ease.
Much losse by talke, and lavishnes of tongue,
Of silence never any yet complained,
Or could say iustly, it had done him wrong:
Who knowes to speake, and when to hold his peace,
Findes fewest daungers, and liues best at ease.
| Minerva Britanna | |