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TEXT_EXPL_XML <p>THE sages seuen, whose fame made <rs>Grecia</rs> glad,<lb/>
        For wisedome greate, amongst theire sainges wise:<lb/>
        Eache one of them, a goulden sentence had,<lb/>
        And <persName>Alciat</persName>, did the pictures thus deuise,<lb/>
        For to obserue the vse of <rs>Emblems</rs> righte,<lb/>
        Which represent the meaning of our sighte.<lb/>
        Keepe still the meane, did <persName>CLEOBÛLVS</persName> teache:<lb/>
        For measure, lo, the ballance ioyn'd thereto.<lb/>
        And Knowe thy selfe, did <persName>CHILON</persName> alwaies preache:<lb/>
        The glasse behoulde, that thou the same maiste doe.<lb/>
        Restraine thy wrathe, dothe <persName>PERIANDER</persName> tell:<lb/>
        And shewes an hearbe, that choller dothe expell.<lb/>
        Nothinge too mutche, did <persName>PITTACVS</persName> commende,<lb/>
        Thereto * a flower, whereof too muche destroyes.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_13401"/>And <persName>SOLON</persName> sai'd: Remember still thy ende,<lb/>
        Before the which, none can haue perfect ioyes:<lb/>
        A piller form'd, declininge downe he showes,<lb/>
        Which telles that deathe, the strongest ouerthrowes.<lb/>
        Of wicked men the number dothe exceede:<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_13402"/>This <persName>BIAS</persName> vs'd: and cause for foule defame,<lb/>
        <rs>SARDINIA</rs> moste is stained, as we reade,<lb/>
        On asses backe, behoulde one of the same.<lb/>
        And <persName>THALES</persName>, laste of all the Sages, say'd:<lb/>
        Flee sewertiship, for feare thou be betray'd.<lb/>
        <term id="embstma_1667_13403"/>And vnderneathe, a birde vpon the net,<lb/>
        That dothe not feare, the craftie foulers call,<lb/>
        Hereby wee ofte, doe paie an others debte,<lb/>
        And free our frendes, and bringe our selues in thrall:<lb/>
        Which sayinges wise, whoe keepe them in their brestes,<lb/>
        By proofe shall finde, they harbour happie guestes.<lb/>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13401" lang="la">* Semen quod di-<lb/>
         citur gith, quod<lb/>
         pharmacopolae vo-<lb/>
         cant Nigellam Ro-<lb/>
         manam.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13402" lang="la"><name type="author">Plutarch.</name> de lib.<lb/>
         educand.<lb/>
         Cùm reliqua omnia<lb/>
         tempore diminuan-<lb/>
         tur, sapientia sola se-<lb/>
         nectute augescit.</gloss>
        <gloss target="embstma_1667_13403" lang="la"><name type="author">Bernard</name>.<lb/>
         Sapientiae otia ne-<lb/>
         gotia sunt: &amp; quo<lb/>
         otiosior est sapien-<lb/>
         tia, co exercitatior<lb/>
         in suo genere.</gloss>
       </p>
      
PREV embstma_1667_emblem133
SEQ 134
PARENT embstma_1667
INTERP_HEN Maß
; Selbsterkenntnis
; Sebsteherrschung
; Mäßigung
; Erinnerung an den Tod
; Bosheit
; Gefärlichkeit der Bürgschaft
TYPE emblem pictura
TIPE emblempictura
HIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
NEXT embstma_1667_emblem135
IIHIM GUL
; EMBLEMS
; ILL_BOOK
; PLANTIN
CAPTION_EN Scales (balance, measure), a mirror (self-knowledge), pennyroyal (controlling one's anger), coriander (moderation), terminus (consider the end), a sheep on a donkey (anger), bird to be caught in a trap (freedom of slavery)
SOURCE_FILE embstma_1667.dmp
LINK embmne_mig1591_emblem186
LINK_FACSIMILE embstma_1667_fac130
MOTTO_LA Dicta septem sapientum
DEDICATION_EN To Sir Hughe Cholmeley Knight.
IC 25F3(...)(+53)
; 25G(+22)
; 25G4(CORIANDER)(+0)
; 25G4(PENNYROYAL)(+0)
; 31A222(+89)
; 31A2226(+0)
; 31A2352
; 31A2512(+931)
; 31A2515
; 31A25551
; 31A511
; 31D14
; 31B70
; 32B311(SARDINIAN)
; 41D211(+81)
; 41D221(+81)
; 41D233(+81)
; 43C13(+414)
; 43C13(+415)
; 43C13(+432)
; 46B3311
; 46C131
; 46C13142(+756)
; 48A9851
; 48C24
; 48C90
; 49L71
; 51FF5(+4)
; 52A51(+4)
; 52A53(+4)
; 53B3(+4)
; 54A43(+4)
; 54AA5(+4)
; 54DD51(+4):46A180
; 57AA6142(+4)
; 58BB1(+4)
; 61B2(ALCIATUS, ANDREAS)3
; 61B2(CHOLMELEY, Hugh)3
; 86(BIAS)
; 86(CILON)
; 86(CLEOBU)
; 86(DICTA SEPTEM SAPIENTUM)
; 86(PERIANDER)
; 86(PITAC)
; 86(SOLON)
; 86(THALES)
; 96A16
; 98B(SEVEN SAGES)(+1)
INTERP_DAL The sayings of the seven wise-men
URL_IMAGE embstma_1667_pic130.jpg
ID embstma_1667_emblem134
MOTTO_LA_NORM Dicta septem sapientum
CHILDREN 
CHILDREN_SQRT 0