<p><term id="embstma_1667_08701"/>HEARE <persName>LAIS</persName> fine, doth braue it on the stage,<lb/> With muskecattes sweete, and all shee coulde desire:<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_08702"/>Her beauties beames, did make the youthe to rage,<lb/> And inwardlie <rs>Corinthus</rs> set on fire:<lb/> Bothe Princes; Peeres, with learned men, and graue,<lb/> With humble sute, did <persName>LAIS</persName> fauour craue.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_08703"/>Not euerie one, mighte to <rs>Corinthus</rs> goe,<lb/> The meaninge was, not all mighte <persName>LAIS</persName> loue:<lb/> The manchet fine, on highe estates bestowe,<lb/> The courser cheate, the baser sorte muste prooue:<lb/> Faire <persName>HELEN</persName> leaue for <persName>MENELAVS</persName> grace,<lb/> And <persName>CORIDON</persName>, let <persName>MABLIE</persName> still imbrace.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_08704"/>And thoughe, the poore maie not presume alofte,<lb/> It is no cause, they therefore shoulde dispaire:<lb/> For with his choise, doth <persName>IRVS</persName> ioye as ofte,<lb/> As dothe the Prince, that hathe a <persName type="mythological">VENVS</persName> faire:<lb/> No highe estate, can giue a quiet life,<lb/> But <rs>GOD</rs> it is, that blesseth man, and wife.<lb/> Then make thy choise, amongste thy equalles still,<lb/> If thou mislike <persName type="mythological">DIANAS</persName> steppes to trace:<lb/> Thoughe <persName>PARIS</persName>, had his <persName>HELEN</persName> at his will,<lb/> Thinke howe his facte, was <persName>ILIONS</persName> foule deface.<lb/> And hee, that moste the house of <persName>LAIS</persName> hauntes,<lb/> The more he lookes, the more her face enchauntes.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_08701" lang="la">De Laide <name type="author">Aul. Gel.</name><lb/> lib. 1. cap. 8.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_08702" lang="la"><name type="author">Propertius</name> Eleg. 2.<lb/> Non ita complebant<lb/> Ephyraea Laidos aedes,<lb/> Ad cuius iacuit Grae-<lb/> cia tota fores.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_08703" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> Epist. lib. 1.<lb/> Epist. 18.<lb/> Non cuiuis homini con-<lb/> tingit adire Corin-<lb/> thum.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_08704" lang="la"><name type="author">Claud.</name>2. de volupt.<lb/> Still. sic,<lb/> Blanda quidem vultu,<lb/> sed qua non tetrior<lb/> vlla,<lb/> Interius fucata genus,<lb/> &amp; amicta dolosis<lb/> Illecebris, &amp;c.</gloss> </p>

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87

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emblempictura

In Alciatus' Emblemata the motto of this emblem is: "Lascivia"

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GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

A richly dressed woman looking at two small furry animals (ermine, sable, musk-rat?)

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Saepius in auro bibitur venenum

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

11A

25F23(ERMINE)(+351)

25F23(SABLE)(+52)

25F26(MUSK-RAT)(+52)

25G3

25H114

26C

31A2512(+933)

31A2518

31D15

33C5211

41A12

41D211(+43)

41D211(+82)

41D2656

42D30

47D8(ROPE)

57AA51(+1)

57AA621(+4)

57AA622(+4)

86(SAEPIUS IN AURO BIBITUR VENENUM)

95A(MENELAUS)21

Poison is more often drunk in gold

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Saepius in auro bibitur venenum