. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . Ex damno alterhtSy alterm <vtilitas. iij?. KxAzdrf^^ ^ rinix T H E Lion fierce, and fauage bore contende,^ The one, his pawes: his tuflces the other tries:And ere the broile,with bloodie blowes had ende,A vulture loe, attendes with watchinge eies:And of their fpoile, doth hope to pra^ie his fill,And ioyes, when they eche others blood doe fpill. When men of mighte, with deadlie rancor fwell,And mortall hate, twixtc mightie Monarches raigncs;Some

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. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . Ex damno alterhtSy alterm <vtilitas. iij?. KxAzdrf^^ ^ rinix T H E Lion fierce, and fauage bore contende,^ The one, his pawes: his tuflces the other tries:And ere the broile,with bloodie blowes had ende,A vulture loe, attendes with watchinge eies:And of their fpoile, doth hope to pra^ie his fill,And ioyes, when they eche others blood doe fpill. When men of mighte, with deadlie rancor fwell,And mortall hate, twixtc mightie Monarches raigncs;Some gripes doe watche, that like the matter of their lofTe, doe raife their priuate gaines:So, S o L I M A N his Empire did increafe,When cliriftian kinges exiled loue, and peace. Ric vtagnus fedet <t/£neAi fecum j^ volutatEuentus belltvarios, ^c. Et pendebat adhnc belli fortma, diui^Inter vtrumque volat dubiis victoria pennii. Ceorgiuj modo dumjhcimtdifcordci prcelia ri^es,Turdus Europte dtri-fit heiiu opet. Virg. AenciJ. r o, ViglUfi Ad D, Gvlielmvm Chatter-to n v m Cesirenfem. Epifcopimuneievt in hac vita ni-hil difficilius,

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