Identifier: choiceofemblemes00whit (find matches)
Title: A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised
Year: 1586 (1580s)
Authors: Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?
Subjects: Emblems
Publisher: Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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tej do marclie into the fielde,With Egles, or with Griphins fierce, or Dragons,in theirefhieUe.But Phoebus facred birde, let Pocttes moftc comincnde.Who, as it were by fldll deuine, with fonge forfhowes his ende.And as his tune dclightes: for rarenes of the fame.So they with fweetenes of theire verie,fhoulde winnealafiiingname.And as his colour white: Sincerenes doth declare. f So Poettes muft bee clcane, and pure, and niurt of crirtjc beware.For which refpedes the Swanne, (hould in theire Eniigile ftande.No forren fowle, and once fuppofde kinge of L i g v r i a Lande. CuvA ducuni fuerant olim, re^um^ paet<t, rr£ma^j amiqui magtia ttdere chori.Sanci^^ maieftus, & erat venerabile mmen Vanbm, & largA ftpe dabantur opes.Bmius emeruit Calabris in montibm orm, CotitigMus pern Sctpio magne tibi.Nunc ederajine honore iacent: eperata^ do^is Cur a vigil Mujis, mmen inertts habet.Sedfamam vigtUre iuuat, quii noffet Umtrum IUm Aternum fi Utuijfet opm. tkm Cum laruis non kSiandum. 117
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-£jc^ind^y:JlcUtx>l WHEN He£lors forcc^ throughe m ortall wounde did faile^And life beganne, to dreadefliU deatlie to yeelde:The Greekes mofte gladde^his dyinge corpes afTaile,Who late did flee before him in the fielde: Which when he (awe, quothe hec nowe workeyour ^ite.For (b J the hares the Lion dead doe byte. Looke here vpon , you that doc wounde the dead,With (launders vile, and fpeeches of defame:Or bookes procure, and libelles to be (pread.When they bee gone, for to deface theire name: Who while they Uiide, did feare you with theire lookcs,And for theire ficill, you might not beare their bookes. NuUtmi cum vidis (ertamen, & dtthere ca^is. Virff. Acaeid.xx. CaptiuuSi IIS Captmus^ oi gu/dm.

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