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A15140 A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And diuers newly deuised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601? 1586 (1586) STC 25438; ESTC S119929 99,935 252

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to future age What thinges before three thousande yeares haue paste What martiall knightes haue march'd vppon this stage Whose actes in bookes if writers did not saue Their fame had ceaste and gone with them to graue Ouid. 1. Amor. 10. Scindētur vestes gemmae frangētur aurū Carmina quam tribuent fama perennis erit Of SAMSONS strengthe of worthie IOSVAS might Of DAVIDS actes of ALEXANDERS force Of CAESAR greate and SCIPIO noble knight Howe shoulde we speake but bookes thereof discourse Then fauour them that learne within their youthe But Ioue them beste that learne and write the truthe De morte amore Iocosum To EDWARD DYER Esquier Ioachim Belleius Mutarunt arma inter se Mors atque Cupido Hic falcem gestat gestat at illa facem Afficit haec animum corpus sed conficit ille Sic moritur iuuenis sic moribundus amat WHILE furious Mors from place to place did flie And here and there her fatall dartes did throwe At lengthe shee mette with Cupid passing by Who likewise had bene busie with his bowe Within one Inne they bothe togeather stay'd And for one nighte awaie theire shooting lay'd The morrowe next they bothe awaie doe haste And eache by chaunce the others quiuer takes The frozen dartes on Cupiddes backe weare plac'd The fierie dartes the leane virago shakes Whereby ensued suche alteration straunge As all the worlde did wonder at the chaunge For gallant youthes whome Cupid thoughte to wounde Of loue and life did make an ende at once And aged men whome deathe woulde bringe to grounde Beganne againe to loue with sighes and grones Thus natures lawes this chaunce infringed soe That age did loue and youthe to graue did goe Till at the laste as Cupid drewe his bowe Before he shotte a younglinge thus did crye Oh Venus sonne thy dartes thou doste not knowe They pierce too deepe for all thou hittes doe die Oh spare our age who honored thee of oulde Theise dartes are bone take thou the dartes of goulde Which beinge saide a while did Cupid staye And sawe how youthe was almoste cleane extinct And age did doate with garlandes freshe and gaye And heades all balde weare newe in wedlocke linckt Wherefore he shewed this error vnto Mors Who miscontent did chaunge againe perforce Yet so as bothe some dartes awaie conuay'd Which weare not theirs yet vnto neither knowne Some bonie dartes in Cupiddes quiuer stay'd Some goulden dartes had Mors amongst her owne Then when wee see vntimelie deathe appeare Or wanton age it was this chaunce you heare Prudentes vino abstinent Max. lib. 6. Mulier quae vini vsum immoderatè appetit virtutibus ianuam claudit delictis aperit LOE here the vine dothe claspe to prudent Pallas tree The league is nought for virgines wise doe Bacchus frendship flee Alciat Quid me vexatis rami Sum Palladis arbor Auferte hinc botros virgo fugit Bromium Englished so Why vexe yee mee yee boughes since I am Pallas tree Remoue awaie your clusters hence the virgin wine doth flee In colores To EDWARDE PASTON Esquier Ouid de Trist Infoelix habitum temporis huius habe Nec te purpureo velent vaccinia succo Non est conueniens luctibus ille color Alciat Nos sperare docet viridis spes dicitur esse in viridi quoties irrita retro cadit THE dier loe in smoke and heate doth toile Mennes fickle mindes to please with sundrie hues And though hee learne newe collours still to boile Yet varijng men woulde faine some newer choose And seeke for that which arte can not deuise When that the ould mighte verie well suffise And some of them here brieflie to recite And to declare with whome they best agree For mourners blacke for the religious white Which is a signe of conscience pure and free The greene agrees with them in hope that liue And eeke to youthe this colour wee do giue The yelowe next vnto the couetous wighte And vnto those whome ielousie doth fret The man refus'd in Taunye doth delite The collour Redde let martiall captaines get And little boies whome shamefastnes did grace The Romaines deck'd in Scarlet like their face The marriners the Blewe becometh well Bicause it showes the colour of the sea And Prophettes that of thinges deuine foretell The men content like Violet arraie And laste the poore and meaner sorte prouide The medley graye and russet neuer dy'de Loe here a fewe of colours plaine expreste And eeke the men with whome they best agree Yet euerie one doth thinke his hewe the beste And what one likes an other lothes to see For Nature thoughe ten thousande colours haue Yet vnto man more varrijng mindes she gaue Nowe straungers who their countries still commende And make vs muse with colours they recite Maye thinke our lande small choise of hues doth lende Bycause so fewe of manie I doe write Yet let them knowe my Aucthor these presentes Inoughe for those whome reason still contentes But saye wee lacke their herbes their wormes their flies And want the meanes their gallant hues to frame Yet Englande hath her store of orient dies And eeke therein a DYER most of fame Who alwaies hathe so fine and freshe a hewe That in their landes the like is not to vewe In studiosum captum amore A Reuerend sage of wisedome most profounde Beganne to doate and laye awaye his bookes For CVPID then his tender harte did wounde That onlie nowe he lik'de his ladies lookes Oh VENVS staie since once the price was thine Thou ought'st not still at PALLAS thus repine Propert. 2. Omnes humanos sanat medicina dolores Solus amor morbi non amat artificem Abstinentia Ad ampliss virum Dn. CAROLVM CALTHORPE Regiae Matis procuratorem in Hibernia Dn. mihi omnibus modis colendissimum WHO so are plac'd in sacred Iustice roome And haue in charge her statutes to obserue Augusto super Psal 37 Apud iustum Iudicem sola conscientia propria timenda est Let them with care behoulde this garnish'd toome That suche a one at lengthe they maie deserue Of marble harde suppose the same to bee August De comm vit Cler. Non vos iudicetis maleuolos esse quādo alterius crimen iudicatis magis quippe nocētes estis si fratres vestros quos iudicando corrigere potestis tacēdo petire permittatis An Ewer eeke vppon one corner standes At th' other ende a bason wee maie see With Towell faire to wipe theire washed handes Th'effecte whereof let Iudges printe in minde That they maie leaue a lasting name behinde The marble showes they must bee firme and sure And not be pierc'd nor mooued from the truthe The reste declare they must bee cleane and pure Stobaeus ex Plutarchi Serm. 44. retulit imagines iudicum apud Thebas esse sine manibus at summ● in sicis imaginem clausis oculis Eò quòd iustitia nec muneribus capi nec hominum vultu flecti