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 150
they maie fleepe vppon their miftris bcdde.And on their lappes, with daynties ftill bee fedde. The loftie pine, with axe is ouerthrowne.And is prepard, to (erue the fliipmans turne:When bufhes ftande, till ftormes bee oucrblownc.And lightningci flailie, the mountaine toppes doth burne.All which doe… … fUf^ WHILE throughe his foes, did boulde B r a s i d a s thruftc.And thought with force, their courage to confoundc :Throughe targat faire, wherein he put his trufte.His manlie corpes reccaud a mortali wounde. Beinge afkd the caufe, before he ycelded ghofte:Quoth hee, my filicide, wherein I truftcd…
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