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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 148

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THE touche doth trye,the fine, and pureft goulde;And not the found, or els the goodly fliowe.So, ifmennes wayes, and verrucs, wee behoulde.The worthy men, wee by their workes, fhall knowe.But gallant lookes, and outward ihowes beguile.And ofte arc clokes to cogitacions vile. Claud. x.StiLdefide.…

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