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 163
TH E bore did whette his aifkes, the foxc demaundcd why :Since that he hadnofoes athande, that fhould thdr fharpnes try. V To which. 154: To which, he anfVere made, u*hen foes doc me befct.They all adiiantige gladlie take, and giue no leane to whet.Which teacheth vs, in peace, our force for warres… … TH E lyoii, aflc, and foxe, goe forthe to hunte for pray:Which done: the lyon bad the aflc, the (poile in partes to laf.Then he with greate regardc, three partes alike did (hare:Wherac, the lyonl in a rage, the afle in peeces tare.The (oxc he charged then, for to performc the fame:Who, all the…
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