. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . ughteIn creatures wilde, and eekc fuch knowledge man, by them in fomme thinges maie be fbme foretell, when weatherfaire will chaunge,Ofhcate, ofrainc, of winde,andtempeftsrage,Som e (iiowe by fignes, and with their fongs prefage. But leauing theife, which almoft all doe knowe,The Crocodile, bywhome thiEgyptianswatcheyHowe farrethatyeare fhall mightie Nilusflowe,For theire fhee likes to laie her egges, and hatche,. Suche fk
. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . ughteIn creatures wilde, and eekc fuch knowledge man, by them in fomme thinges maie be fbme foretell, when weatherfaire will chaunge,Ofhcate, ofrainc, of winde,andtempeftsrage,Som e (iiowe by fignes, and with their fongs prefage. But leauing theife, which almoft all doe knowe,The Crocodile, bywhome thiEgyptianswatcheyHowe farrethatyeare fhall mightie Nilusflowe,For theire fhee likes to laie her egges, and hatche,. Suche fkill deuine, and fcience to foretell> Hath Nature lente vnto this Serpent fell. Which fiioweSjThey fliould with due regarde fore/ec. When anie one doth take in hande a caufe. The drifte, and cnde,of that they doe decree,, And longe thereon to ponder, and to after witts, are like a (hower of rayncWhich moiftes the foikj when withered is the grainc. A z Vevi* *^ Nic. ReufneriH.^Uhficer excurrtt Nilus in anUTPrdjciiu : alimtie libera poait ^ OUa : monens merito tiosCroc»(lilff-£lu*Jatatmmiiieant, ante videri Veritas temporis ^6^ T^ H R E E furies fell, which turne the worlde to ruthe,A Both EnuiCj Strife, and Slaunder, heare appeare, In dungeon darke they longe inclofed truthe,ButTimeatlengthe, did lodfe his daughter fetts alofte, that (acred ladic brighte,^Vhoe things longe hidd, reueales, and bringes to hghtc. Thougheftrifemakefier, thoughe Enuiceatehirhartc,The innocent though Slaunder rente, and fpoile:Yet Time will comme, and take this ladies breake her bandes, and bring her foes to not then, thoughe truthe be hidden ofte,Bycaufe at lengthe, f hee fhall bee iett alofte, DifidU . Dljjidia intet equate s^ tejJimA.
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