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 73
bee of fuch miglitie force,That creatures fierce, and brutifhe kinde he tames:Oh mightie I o v e , vouchfafe to fliowe rcmorfe,Hclpe feeble man, and pictie tender dames: Let Africkc wildc, this tyrauntes force indurc. If not alas, ho we can poorc man bee fure. / <^m mn tnille pr£, quern non… … NOT for our felues, albnc wcc are create.But for our frendes, and for our countries good:And thofe, that are vnto thcire frendcs ingrate.And not regarde theire offpringe, and theire blood,Or hee, that waftes his fubftance till he bcgges,Or felles his landes, whiche fcriide his parentes well:Is like…
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