. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . labour ftill, and leauc thie flouthfiiU featc,Flee IdlcnelTc, which bcggers ftate dothe giue:With fA-eate of browe, fee that thou get thy meatCjIf thou be borne, with labouring handc to Hue:And get, to cate. and eate, to liue with praife:Liuc not to cace, to Iiue with wanton ea(e. By lawes, the idle men (liouldc die,The Florentines, made banifhemeuttheire painc:In Corinthe, thofe that idlie rhey cRfffcc,Wcare warndc at firfte, the fcconde


. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . labour ftill, and leauc thie flouthfiiU featc,Flee IdlcnelTc, which bcggers ftate dothe giue:With fA-eate of browe, fee that thou get thy meatCjIf thou be borne, with labouring handc to Hue:And get, to cate. and eate, to liue with praife:Liuc not to cace, to Iiue with wanton ea(e. By lawes, the idle men (liouldc die,The Florentines, made banifhemeuttheire painc:In Corinthe, thofe that idlie rhey cRfffcc,Wcare warndc at firfte, the fcconde time were flaine;And eke Saind Paule, the flothfuU thus dotli threatc,Whoc laboreth not, denic him for to eate. Quftmx jy£fi^us quare fit fd^m adulter:In prompiu caujfa ejl, defidtofus erat. L 5 « Sabcl,^Nci] lie gratis pa-nem manducaui-tnus ab aliquo,fed in laborc, &in fatigatione,node,& die opc-rantes&c. (^ poiJea:Qujniarn fiquisnoil vult operari,necmanducct. Ouid. {J^ertui ^^ Mortui dimttdz. Ad Reuerendum virum D«. Alexandrvm Noweli VauUhaecclefta Londini Decanmn, doctrina, & exewph mors te(^uc pn!=/at ycde pauferum ta- Propertrtis vUaiportai it opts^cbcrontit ad vndas: Nudmab infirnafinite vchcrt ratititlor cum viUu pari-Ser nifcehitHr vmbm, ConfuU cum Mari^9»/U luffirtka fida, ■ TH E Princes J and of the earthe,Whoe , while they liude, the worlde might not fuffice:Yet can they claime, by greatnefle of their birthe,To bearc from hence-, when nature life denies, Noe more then rhcy, ;who fo-^ i^lciG: did pyne, .\Vhich is but thi?, a. fhrouding fheete of twyne. Thoughe fewe there bee, while they doe flourifhc doe regarde the place whereto the mufte:Yet J thoughe theire pride like Lucifers fhalbcc fure at lengthe to turne to dufte: The Prince, the Poore, the Prifbner, and the all ac lengthe, are furamonde to their graue. But BiK, hec that pri


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