. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . iili vifagc fterne appeares?Whofe feeble lirnmes, can fcarce the bodie ftaie:This,. Enuie is: leane, pale, and full of yeares,Who with the blifTe cf other pines awaie. And what declares, her eating vipers broods?That poyfbned thoughtes, bee euermorc her foode. \^^hat meanes her eies? fo bleared, fore, and redd:Her mourningc flill, ta fee an others what is mente by fnakes vpon her head^..The fruite that fpringes, of fuch a venomed braine.
. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . iili vifagc fterne appeares?Whofe feeble lirnmes, can fcarce the bodie ftaie:This,. Enuie is: leane, pale, and full of yeares,Who with the blifTe cf other pines awaie. And what declares, her eating vipers broods?That poyfbned thoughtes, bee euermorc her foode. \^^hat meanes her eies? fo bleared, fore, and redd:Her mourningc flill, ta fee an others what is mente by fnakes vpon her head^..The fruite that fpringes, of fuch a venomed braine. But whie, her harte fhee rentes within her brcft? It fhewes her {elfe ,.doth worke her owne vnreft. Whie lookes fhce wronger bicaule fhee woulde not fee. An happie wight, which is to her a hell: What other partes within this furie bee? Her harte, with gall: her tonge, with ftinges doth lafte of all, her ftaffe with prickes aboundes:Which fhowes her wordes, wherewith the good fhce woundes. I. Jmilior fegei eft alienU femper in agrU^Vicmw^ pectn ^randius yhr hdeu Ve In^ T>« Inuido Q^oAmro, iocofum. !>S. TH E Goddes agreed, two men their wiftie fhould haue:And did decree, who firfte demaunde did make,Shoulde hauo his wifhe: and he that laft did others gifte fhoulde double to him take. The Couetous wretche, and the Enuious m^ntTheifc weare the two, that of this cafe did longe did ftriuc, who fhoulde the firfte demaunde:The Couetous man rcfufde, bicaufe his mate,Shoulde haue his gifte then doubled out of hande:The thought whereof, vppon his hartc did grata Wherefore the Goddes, did plague him for his CnnCjAnd did commaunde, thEnuious man did not craue, what Midas cheife did choofe,Becaufe his frcnde, the fruitc thereof (liould finde:But onelie wifhdc, that he one eie might loofc,Vnto the endc, to haue the other blinde: Which beinge fayd, he did his wifhe obtainc:So but one eye, was lefte vnto them
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