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 32
thowghe they toile, yet arc they not the neare, But as they powre, the water forthe dothe runnc:No painc will (eruc, to fill it to the toppe,For, ftill at holes the fame doth runne,anddroppc. Which reprehendes, three fortes of wretches vainc,The blabbe, thingratc, and thofe that couet ftill.As… … a,SerJjia, tjfe OF N IO B E, behoulde the ruthefull plighte,Bicaufe fhee did di{pi(e the powers deuine:Her children all, weare flaine within herfighte.And, while her felfe with tricklinge teares did pine,Shce was transfornide, into a marble ftone,Wliich, yet with teares, dothe feeme to waile, and…
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