A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised (1586)
Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601? · Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius · leaf 104
ft? It fhewes her {elfe ,.doth worke her owne vnreft. Whie lookes fhce wronger bicaule fhee woulde not fee. An happie wight, which is to her a hell: What other partes within this furie bee? Her harte, with gall: her tonge, with ftinges doth fwell.And lafte of all, her ftaffe with prickes… … TH E Goddes agreed, two men their wiftie fhould haue:And did decree, who firfte demaunde did make,Shoulde hauo his wifhe: and he that laft did craue.The others gifte fhoulde double to him take. The Couetous wretche, and the Enuious m^ntTheifc weare the two, that of this cafe did fcanne.They longe…
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