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 43
Ues her plumes, bothe from her backe, andbrcftet;And while (hee ftryues, her broode for to prefcruc,Ofte times for coulde, the tender damme doth fterue* Medea nowc, and P r o g n e ^ bluffiic for fliame:By whome,are mcnt yow dames of cruell kinde,Whofe infantes yonge , vnto your endlefle blame.For… … \yf H A T dolefiill dame is this in greate difpaire *^ ^ This prowes is, vvhoe mournes on A i a x toonibe;What is the caufe , fhee rentes her gouldcn hairc?Wrongefentence pafte by Ac a me m N;0 n s doombe.:£ut howe ? declare, V l i s s e s filed tongc,AUurde the ludge., to giue a ludgement wronge.…
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