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Lychnocausia

Sive Moralia Facum Emblemata: Lights Morall Emblems: Authore Roberto Farlaeo Scoto-Britanno [i.e. by Robert Farley]
Farley, Robert
  
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To the most Noble and Illustrious Lady, both for Nobility and Piety, as of Vertue a rare and peerlesse example, Lady Anne Kare, Countesse of Ancram.
  
To his friend the Author.
  
To the Author.
  
To the Author.
  
To the Ingenious Author, on his Latin and English Morall Emblems.
  
Britaines Great Lights.
  
Oxonia.
  
Cantabrigia.
  
To the Reader.
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[Study me in thy Prime]

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5.

[Whose purchase was his pouch, his house a tun]

Whose purchase was his pouch, his house a tun,
Criticke of actions whatsoever done,
That learned dogge, at noone-tyde tinn'd his light,
Searching for one, whose actions were upright.
The Eagles young ones by the Sunne are try'd,
Mens actions by the lamp are best espy'd;
For men in day time maskt with vizards goe
Of truth and faith making an outward show.
But when they can nights secret silence find,
Before the lamp they doe unmaske their mind.
Happy is he whom Sunne and Lamp sees one,
Who's honest still, though witnesse there be none.
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