<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>

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Selbsterkenntnis

Sebsteherrschung

Mäßigung

Erinnerung an den Tod

Bosheit

Gefärlichkeit der Bürgschaft

emblem pictura

emblempictura

GUL

EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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EMBLEMS

ILL_BOOK

PLANTIN

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)

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Dicta septem sapientum

To Sir Hughe Cholmeley Knight.

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)

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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)

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98B(SEVEN SAGES)(+1)

The sayings of the seven wise-men

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