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<p>WHOME fortune heare allottes a meane estate,<lb/> Yet giues enowghe, eache wante for to suffise:<lb/> That wauering wighte, that hopes for better fate,<lb/> And not content, his cawlinge doth despise,<lb/> Maie vainlie clime, but likelie still to fall,<lb/> And liue at lengthe, with losse of maine, and all.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_03901"/>And he that poastes, to make awaie his landes,<lb/> And credittes all, that wandringe heades reporte:<lb/> Maye <rs>Tagus</rs> seeke, and <rs>Ganges</rs> goulden sandes,<lb/> Yet come at lengthe, with emptie purse to courte:<lb/> Let suche behoulde, the greedie dogge to moane,<lb/> By brooke deceau'd, with shaddow of his boane.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_03902"/><foreign lang="la">Non minor est virtus, quàm quaerere parta tueri,<lb/> Casus inest illic, hîc erit artis opus.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_03903"/>Seruiet aeternùm, quia paruo nesciat vti.<lb/> Cui non conueniet sua res, vt calceus olim,<lb/> Si pede maior erit, subuertet: si minor, vrget.<lb/> Laetus sorte tua viues, sapienter Aristi.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_03901" lang="la"><name type="author">Hor.</name> 2. Car. 16.<lb/> Viuitur paruo benè, cui<lb/> paternum<lb/> Splendet in meusa tenui<lb/> salinum:<lb/> Nec leues somnes ti-<lb/> mor, aut <persName type="mythological">Cupido</persName><lb/> Sordidus aufert.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_03902" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> lib. 2.<lb/> Art</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_03903" lang="la"><name type="author">Horatius</name> 1.<lb/> Epist. 10.</gloss> </p> |
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A dog is deceived by the reflection in a river of the bone he has in his mouth |
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Mediocribus vtere partis |
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GUL EMBLEMS ILL_BOOK PLANTIN |
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Accept moderate possessions |
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Mediocribus utere partis |