. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . le, and man coulde not remaine^But all tliat is, flioulde (bone be turnd to was :By raging Sea, is mcnt our ghoftlie earthe, mans foule: he jfeekes to ouerthrowc* And as the furge doth worke both daie, and nighte^And fhakes the fhore, and ragged rockes doth rente:So Sathan ftirrcs, with all his maine, and mighte,Contmuall ficge, our foules to circumuente. Then watche, and praie, for feare wee fleepe in finnc,For cealQ our aime: and hee can
. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . le, and man coulde not remaine^But all tliat is, flioulde (bone be turnd to was :By raging Sea, is mcnt our ghoftlie earthe, mans foule: he jfeekes to ouerthrowc* And as the furge doth worke both daie, and nighte^And fhakes the fhore, and ragged rockes doth rente:So Sathan ftirrcs, with all his maine, and mighte,Contmuall ficge, our foules to circumuente. Then watche, and praie, for feare wee fleepe in finnc,For cealQ our aime: and hee can nothing winne. eft inomiii vitacequa-bilitas, idemquevultus, eadem-^ue frons. Bern, in eftfinis Yirturum,&virtus fine quanemo vidcbitdeum. Ij. n^iS^afeptemfaplentum. To 5?V H V G H E C H O L M E L E Y Ktllght. yJicXcitx^^il^-^ *Seiren quod di-cituc gith , quodpharmacopoljE vo»cantNigcllam Ro-manam. Plutarch, delib. educand. Cum rcliquadmhia «mpore dimiouan- tut,fapientia fola fe- neftute augefcii- otia ne-0Otia flint: & quootiofior eft fapien-tia, CO exetcicauocmfuogcnecc,. H E fages {euen, whofe fame made Grecia wiftiiome greate, amongft theirc :EHche one of them, a goulden feuteuce had,And Alciat, did the pidures thus deuifc, For to obfcruc the vie of Emblems righte,Which reprefent the meaning to our (lilithtfmantj, did C L^ o b u i v s tcachc:For meafurc, lo, the ballance ioynd thereto.•And Kno^e thy felfcj , did C H i i. o N alwaies prcachc:. The glafie behoulde , that thou the fame maiftc doc. Retiraine thy ^rathe^ , dothe Periander tcll:And Ihewes an hcarbe , that choUer dothe rnutcht^ , did P i T T a c v s *a flower ,vvheredf too miiche dcftroyes., And So L ON faid, thy the which , none can haue perfed ioycs: A piller formd, declininge downe he fhowcs,Which tclks that deathe , the fhongeft oucrtlirowcfcof
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