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 147
TH E hell-net ftrongc, that did the head defende,Beholde, for hyue, the bees in quiet ferud:And when tliar warrcs, with bloodie blocs, had ende.They, hony wroughte, where fouldiour was prefcrud:Which doth declare, the blcflcd fruitcs of peace,< How iweete (hee is, when rnortall warres doe ceafc.… … WH o fo with force againft the marble wall,Or piller ftrongc, doth fhooce, to pierce the fame:It not preuailes, for doimc the arrowes fall,Or backc leboundc, to him from whence they came:So flaunders foule, and wordes like arrowes kcene.Not vertue hurtes, but turncs her foes to tcene. Sic^e^ sic…
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