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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p> <term id="embstma_1667_10401"/>THE Goddes agreed, two men their wishe should haue:<lb/>
        And did decree, who firste demaunde did make,<lb/>
        Shoulde haue his wishe: and he that last did craue,<lb/>
        The others gifte shoulde double to him take.<lb/>
        The Couetous wretche, and the Enuious man:<lb/>
        Theise weare the two, that of this case did scanne.<lb/>
        They longe did striue, who shoulde the firste demaunde:<lb/>
        The Couetous man refus'de, bicause his mate,<lb/>
        Shoulde haue his gifte then doubled out of hande:<lb/>
        The thought whereof, vppon his harte did grate.<lb/>
        Wherefore the Goddes, did plague him for his sinne,<lb/>
        And did commaunde, th'Enuious man beginne.<lb/>
        Who did not craue, what <persName>MIDAS</persName> cheife did choose,<lb/>
        Because his frende, the fruite thereof should finde:<lb/>
        But onelie wish'de, that he one eie might loose,<lb/>
        Vnto the ende, to haue the other blinde:<lb/>
        Which being say'd, he did hid wishe obtaine:<lb/>
        So but one eye, was lefte vnto them twaine.<lb/>
        See heare how vile, theise caytiffes doe appeare,<lb/>
        To <rs>GOD</rs>, and man: but chieflie (as wee see)<lb/>
        The Couetous man, who hurreth farre, and neare,<lb/>
        Where spytefull men, theire owne tormentors bee.<lb/>
        But bothe be bad, and he that is the beste,<lb/>
        <rs>GOD</rs> keepe him thence, where honest men doe reste.<lb/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_10401" lang="la"><name type="author">Auth.</name> de Gueuara<lb/>
         in Epistolis suis.</gloss>
       </p>
      
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IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN An avaricious and an envious man are granted a wish by the gods on the condition that the first who makes a wish will get what he wants while the second will receive the same thing twice; the envious man is forced to go first and wishes to lose one eye ...
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac095
MOTTO_LA De Invido & Avaro, iocosum
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
IC 11N32(+0)
; 25G13
; 25H11
; 25I12
; 31A2212
; 31A2515
; 31A2515(+931)
; 31A2516
; 31A2531
; 31A25552
; 31A2711
; 31A4111
; 41D225(+81)
; 41D233(+81)
; 41D267
; 46A1632
; 46C11
; 55CC11(+4)
; 86(DE INVIDO ET AVARO, IOCOSUM)
INTERP_DAL Of the envious and the avaricious, in a humorous tale
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic095.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem104
MOTTO_LA_NORM De Invido et Avaro, iocosum
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0