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 84
erue. The couetons man, this fable rcprehendcs.For chaunge his name, and T a n t a l v s hee kyHee dottie abounde, yet fterues and nothing fpendeSjBut keepcs his goulde, as if it wcare not his:With (lender fare, he doth his hunger fcede.And dare not touche his (lore, when hee dothnecdc. Tafjtalm a… … nr O Caucaius, behoulde Promethevs chainde,-■- Whofe liLicr ftill, a greedic gripe doche rente:He ncuer dies, and yet is alwaies pamde,With tortures dire, by which the Poectes ment.That hee, that ftill amid miffortunes ftandes,Is (brrowcs flaue, and bounde in laftingc bandes. For, when that griefe…
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