. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . f-K^ \^ hr H E Cuttle fifhe, that likes the muddie crickes,-■- To which, the (ea dothe flowe at euerie tide:For to efcape the fifhers ginnes, and nature did this ftraunge deuife prouide:That when he feeth, his foe to lie in wayte,Hce muddes the ftreame, and (afelie fcapesdeceyte. Then man: m whome doth facred reafbn reft^,,All waics, and mcanes, fhoulde vfe to (auc his life:Not wilfuUic 3 tlie fame for to rafhlie ranne, whe
. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . f-K^ \^ hr H E Cuttle fifhe, that likes the muddie crickes,-■- To which, the (ea dothe flowe at euerie tide:For to efcape the fifhers ginnes, and nature did this ftraunge deuife prouide:That when he feeth, his foe to lie in wayte,Hce muddes the ftreame, and (afelie fcapesdeceyte. Then man: m whome doth facred reafbn reft^,,All waics, and mcanes, fhoulde vfe to (auc his life:Not wilfuUic 3 tlie fame for to rafhlie ranne, when tyrauntes rage with ftrife:But conftant ftande, abyding fweete or fbwcn,>Vntill the Lorde appoynte an liappie Obfiuri latues me condunt: fcrnere U^amMramema yetant: abditAj ma nator N Celfi qu* pmteriit, tm-fit ftuittttitttr vnda ; ^« qudft*ternthtra rttl/re pottii,Yttndum tfi dtate, iitpfedt lahituf dtatj Q^ti bona tamftqtUP*r,q\tam k»it»ftima Paradifus pocVadc Scpia. P8 StdtitUfmfeiffumfagmdru Ad H. S. commmem viduarum TH E Foxe, that longe for grapes did leape in wearie limmes, at Icngthe did fad departe:And to him felfe quoth hee, I doe difdayncThefe grapes I fee, bicaufe their tafte is tarte: So thou, that huntft for that thou longc haft makes thy boaft, thou maift if that thou lift.
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