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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p><term id="embstma_1667_06601"/><persName>PYTHAGORAS</persName>, vnto his schollers gaue,<lb/>
        This lesson firste, that silence they shoulde keepe:<lb/>
        And this, wee reade Philosophers moste graue,<lb/>
        Yea in theire hartes, this Princes printed deepe:<lb/>
        <persName>VLISSES</persName> wordes weare spare, but rightlie plac'd:<lb/>
        This, <persName>NESTOR</persName> lik'de. <persName>LYCVRGVS</persName> this embrac'de.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06602"/>This, famons made <persName>EPAMINONDAS</persName> boulde:<lb/>
        By this, great praise did <persName>DEMARATVS</persName> gaine:<lb/>
        This, Athens made to reuerence <persName>ZENO</persName> olde:<lb/>
        <persName>SIMONIDES</persName> condemned speaches vaine,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06603"/>Whose sayinge was, my wordes repentance had,<lb/>
        But Silence yet, did neuer make mee sad.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06604"/>And <persName>CATO</persName> sayeth: That man is next to <rs>GOD</rs>,<lb/>
        Whoe squares his speache, in reasons rightfull frame:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06605"/>For idle wordes, <rs>GOD</rs> threatneth with his rodde, <lb/>
        And sayeth, wee must giue reckoninge for the same:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06606"/><persName>Sainct PAVLE</persName> likewise, this faulte doth sharpelie tutche,<lb/>
        And oftentimes, condemneth bablinge mutche.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06607"/>One calles the tounge, the gate of life, and deathe,<lb/>
        Which wiselie vs'd, extolleth men on earthe:<lb/>
        Which lewdlie vs'de, depriueth men of breathe,<lb/>
        <pb n="embstma_1667_fac061"/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06608"/>And makes them mourne, whoe might haue liu'de in mirthe:<lb/>
        For euell wordes, pierce sharper then a sworde,<lb/>
        Which ofte wee rue, thoughe they weare spoke in boorde.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06609"/>Not that distroyes, into the mowthe that goes,<lb/>
        But that distroyes, that forthe thereof doth comme:<lb/>
        For wordes doe wounde, the inwarde man with woes,<lb/>
        Then wiselie speake, or better to bee domme<lb/>
        The tounge, althowghe it bee a member small,<lb/>
        Of man it is the best, or worste of all.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06610"/>The foole, is thought with silence to be wise,<lb/>
        But when he prates, him selfe he doth bewraye:<lb/>
        And wise men still, the babler doe dispise,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06611"/>Then keepe a watche when thou haste owght to saie,<lb/>
        What labour lesse, then for to houlde thy peace,<lb/>
        Which aged daies, with quiet doth increase.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06612"/>Th'<rs>Aegyptians</rs> wise, and other nations farre,<lb/>
        Vnto this ende, <persName>HARPOCRATES</persName> deuis'de,<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_06613"/>Whose finger, still did seeme his mouthe to barre,<lb/>
        To bid them speake, no more then that suffis'de,<lb/>
        Which signe thoughe oulde, wee may not yet detest,<lb/>
        But marke it well, if wee will liue in reste.<lb/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06601" lang="la">De laude silentij<lb/>
         <name type="author">Aul. Gel.</name> lib. 11.<lb/>
         cap. 10. Idem de va-<lb/>
         niloquio lib. 1.<lb/>
         cap. 15.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06602" lang="la"><persName>Epaminondas</persName> cele-<lb/>
         bratur apud <name type="author">Pinda-<lb/>
          rum</name> qui, quanquam<lb/>
         multa sciret, pauca<lb/>
         tamen loquebatur.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06603" lang="la">Locutum fuisse poeni-<lb/>
         tuit, tacuisse ver<lb/>
         nunquam.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06604" lang="la"><name type="author">Cato</name> lib. 1.<lb/>
         Proximus ille deo, qui<lb/>
         scit ratione tacere,</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06605" lang="la">Cor. 1. cap. 15.<lb/>
         Corrumpunt mores bo-<lb/>
         nos, colloquia praua</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06606" lang="la">De vaniloquio.<lb/>
         <name type="author">Paul.</name> Timoth. 2. cap. 2.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06607" lang="la"><name type="author">Guill. Lill.</name><lb/>
         Est vitae ac pariter ia-<lb/>
         nua lingua necis.</gloss>
        <pb n="embstma_1667_fac061"/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06608" lang="la">Pet. 1. cap. 3.<lb/>
         Qui enim vult vi-<lb/>
         tam diligere, &amp; dies<lb/>
         videre bonos: coër-<lb/>
         ceat linguam  à malo.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06609" lang="la">Marc. 7.<lb/>
         Nihil est extra ho-<lb/>
         minem introiens in<lb/>
         eum, quod possit<lb/>
         eum coinquinare, sed<lb/>
         quae de homine pro-<lb/>
         cedunt, &amp;c.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06610" lang="la"><name type="author">Hor.</name> 1. Serm. 4.<lb/>
         Fingere qui non visa<lb/>
         potest, commissa tacere<lb/>
         Qui nequit: hic niger<lb/>
         est, hunc Romane<lb/>
         caueto.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06611" lang="la"><name type="author">Ouid.</name> 2. Amor. 2.<lb/>
         Quis minor est autem<lb/>
         quàm tacuisse labor?</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06612" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> 1. Ep. 18.<lb/>
         Nec retinent patula com-<lb/>
         missa tacuisse labor?</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_06613" lang="la"><name type="author">Plutarch.</name> in Moral.</gloss>
       </p>
      
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PARENT embstma_1667
INTERP_HEN Verschwiegenheit
DEDICATION_LA Ad D. T. C. M.
TIPE emblempictura
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem067
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN A scholar in his study holds his finger to his lips
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_mig1591_emblem011
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MOTTO_LA Silentium
TYPE emblem pictura
IC 11H(PAUL)
; 31A2352(+61)
; 31A2512(+934)
; 31A2536
; 31A2626(+53)
; 31B623591
; 31D14
; 41A33
; 41A711
; 41A712
; 41A713
; 41A7212
; 41A7221
; 41D212(+81)
; 41D221(+81)
; 41D233(+81)
; 49C32
; 49L511
; 49L61
; 49MM32
; 52DD3(+4)
; 61B2(D. T. C. M.)3
; 86(IN SILENTIUM)
; 95A(NESTOR)
; 95A(ULYSSES)
; 96A33
; 98B(CATO THE ELDER)3
; 98B(DEMARATUS)3
; 98B(EPAMINONDAS)3
; 98B(LYCURGUS)3
; 98B(PYTHAGORAS)3
; 98B(SIMONIDES)3
; 98B(ZENO)3
INTERP_DAL Silence
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