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 166
WHEN firfl: the foxe, the lyon did behoulde,Hee quakd for &are, and almoft dead did fall:The (econd time, he waxed (bmewhat bouldejBut at the third, hee had no feare at all. Which fhewes, that artes at firft mofte hardc to fee,With trial! oft, both playne i and cade bee. In eos I/teos,… … Tha s T R o N o M E R , by night beheld the flarrcs to fliinc:Andwhat (hould chaunce an other yeaie, began for to dcuinc.But while too longe in fkyes, the curious fcolc did dwell.As hec was marchinge through the fliade, he flipt into a well.Then ciying out for helpe, had frendes at hand, by…
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