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 86
Oui<l.J.Pont.«.Ctim foUr»m reSetranfirt Ceraufjis velt Vtfirdvitartmja-xa, monendus tram.Nunc mihi naufrttoitquidprtdefl dittrefifft £Im mia detueraeurrcre cjirtba vi» TH R o V G H E rafed wall, a ferpet^ite backwarde flydcs.And yet, before her poiforted head appeare.The prudent man, for fafetie… … TH E prouerbe faieth, ib longe , the porte to water goes.That at the lengrhe it broke returnes, which is apphJe to thofc.That longe wuh wyles , and fhiftes, haue cloaked wicked partes,V^hoc haue at lengihe bene paied home, and had theireiuftdcfertes.Eucn as the flymieeele, that ofte did flippe…
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