. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . fhee did di{pi(e the powers deuine:Her children all, weare flaine within , while her felfe with tricklinge teares did pine,Shce was transfornide, into a marble ftone,Wliich, yet with teares, dothe feeme to waile, and monc. This tragcdie, thoughe Poetts firfl: did frame. Yet maie it bee, to cuerie one applide: That mortall men, fhoulde rhinke from whence they came. And not prefume, nor pufFc them vp with pride, Lefte that the Lorde,who
. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . fhee did di{pi(e the powers deuine:Her children all, weare flaine within , while her felfe with tricklinge teares did pine,Shce was transfornide, into a marble ftone,Wliich, yet with teares, dothe feeme to waile, and monc. This tragcdie, thoughe Poetts firfl: did frame. Yet maie it bee, to cuerie one applide: That mortall men, fhoulde rhinke from whence they came. And not prefume, nor pufFc them vp with pride, Lefte that the Lorde,whoe haughty hartes doth hate, [flate. Doth throwe tliem downc, when fure theythinke theyr Fabula Mc-tamorph. De rumero fi«lioium , videAul cap. tt EH« yt(ic\A Utl, cemoHtmeafimeratriJlei; Sonfimiltitoto m^rorinorbefuit^.iiifeftemnatos peperi, bit pignorafeptem : MtmiJeTMni Dutum jitjluluiramhi. Viri^i demumUmmii, a^ marmora matiam. Btpt. Gyral-Sic niihi tmn dohr tJi;ftc mihi vita, dolor- *^** Dtfciiey mmaUsy (jHid fit mrgefcerefasiH,Et qtiidft magnoi poJlbabHij[eDeo$. B 5 /;; ^/- ^ Jn ^ttam humanam* T,. ■^i^O^V^. TH E wicked worlde, (o fzlCe and full of alwaics mooue H e r a c l i t v s to fadinge ioyes, and follies of that time, D E M o c R IT V s did driuc to laughter deepe,q^riiiitaw vus. Thus heynous finne, and follie did procureTheife famous men, fuche paflions to indure. What if they liude^ and fhoulde behoulde this ageWhich ouerflowes, with fwellinge feas of finhe:Where fooleS;, by iwarmes, doe prelTe vppon the helliflie Impes, that like haue neuer binne:, I thinke this lighte, fhoulde haften their dccayeThen helpe vs God, and Sathans flirie ftaie. Hdratiuf. Dammja quid nm mmmuit dies?9^tM parentum fetor auis tulitNos nequtores, mox daturosffogeniem yitioftorem* JntefinA^ Nee verbo^ necfi. Eio^ quenquam Udcndum, i ^
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