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 152
TH E ape in tree, beganne at foxe beneath to raile:And faid ,hee was a ftiamelefle beaft to weare fo great a tailc. .Then aunfwere made the foxe, I maye thee more deride,Bicaufe thou hafte no raile at all, thy fhamelefte partes to hide.Which (hewcs the birtcr fruite, that doth of mocking… … WHEN (cntencc wronge, of will, and rigor vile,Was fratrid, to pleafe the Emperor Vale n s rniiidc:Which (houlde condemne Saind Basil to exile:And nothinge lack4, but tliat it was not fignd:ThEmperor thoughte to take no longer paufc.But tooke his penne, for to coriflrme the caufe. But all in vaync,…
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