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 74
felles his landes, whiche fcriide his parentes well:Is like the henne, when fhee hathe lay ae her eggcs.That fuckes them vp and leaues the emptie fhell,Euen (6 theire Ipoile, to thcire reprochcjand fhame,Vndocth theire heire, and quite dccayeth theire nanie. Oui/quU fecundii rehiis exultat… … 6J ivx. in^r:jilcia^:£. TH E biynde, did beare the lame vppon his backe, .The burthen, did diredle the bearers waies:With mutuall belpe, they ferud cche others lacke,And euery one, their frendly league did praife: The lame lente eies, the blynde did lend his feete^And fo they fafe, did pa|Ie both…
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