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 160
ouerthrowe.And vndermine the grounde, wlieron wee goe. ■ . . ■ : ^ i iljlbo XlOfi The Olephant fo huge, and Itronge to lee,.- . / . rNo perill feard i but thought, a fleepe to gaineBut foes before had vndetmin de the tree,And downe he fallesy and.fo by them i;vas>flalne rFir{ltrye,then truftc:… … ^iJ^^^fi-^ WHERE couetoufhes the (cepter doth fupporte.There, grcedic gripes the Kinge dothe oftc extoll:Bicau(e , he knowes they, doc but make a (porte,His fubiecics poore, to fhaue, to pill, and poll ?And when he (^^^, that they are fatte, and full ?He cuttcs them of, that he maye haue thcirc…
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