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 34
ous men, fuche paflions to indure. What if they liude^ and fhoulde behoulde this ageWhich ouerflowes, with fwellinge feas of finhe:Where fooleS;, by iwarmes, doe prelTe vppon the ftage.With helliflie Impes, that like haue neuer binne:, I thinke this lighte, fhoulde haften their dccayeThen helpe vs… … HEARE, Nemesis the GoddeiTe iufte dotl^ ftande.With bended arme, to meafure all our waies,A rainc fhce houldcs, with in the other hande,With biting bitte, where with the lewde fhee ftaics:And pulles them backe, when harme they doeintende.Or when they take in wicked fpeeche delite.And biddcs them…
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