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 87
es ftill be lente,But being falne, it turncth into mouldc. And doth no good: foe cic to graue wee fall,■^ee maie do good, but after none at all. K 5 Dd f«(i, ium tua flint,poff mortem tunc tuattonjitnl. Noli 7$ Noli altumffere. CL OMtCPttikfXH^. 9, Wj^Ci^ioi^.Lio^. ^^^i ^^ Claud.i Ruf. -Uun nan ail… … WITH,lime,and net, the Mauis, and thclarke^The fowler loe, deceaucd by his arte :But whiUlc alofte, he leucld at his markc.And did to highe exalte, his havvghtie hartc.An adder fell, that in the graffe did lurke,With poifbned ftinge, did his deflruClion worke.Let mortall men, that are butearthe,…
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