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 130
ine,Euen as the Cocke doth finge, ere daie doth (liine. The Lion fhewcs, they ihoulde of courage bee. And able zo defendc, their flocke fi-pm: foes: If rauening wolfes, to he in waite they fee: They flioulde be ftronge, and boiilde, with them to cIo(e:And Co be armde with learning, and with life.As… … coc^. TH I s figure ,lo, AvGVSTVS did deuife,A mirror good, for Judges iufte to fee,And alwayes fitte, to bee before their eies,When fcntence they , of life, and deathe decree:Then mufte they hafte, but verie flowelt\vaie.Like butterflie, whome creepinge crabbe dothe flaie. The Prince , or ludge,…
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