The Theater of Fine Devices containing an hundred morall Emblemes. First penned in french by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe |
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EMBLEME LXXXVII.
In euery thing aduise you first:
Take the best, and leaue the worst.
In Poets pamphlets fables fond we find,
Take the best, and leaue the worst.
Yet in those fables wisedome they inuent;
The morall still hath sense of other kind,
How ere the verse do colour their intent:
But to the letter who himselfe doth bind,
May misse the matter that therein is meant:
As vnder leaues that hang on crooked vines,
Lie hid sweet grapes that make the costly wines.
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