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<p>WHERE couetousnes the scepter doth supporte,<lb/> There, greedie gripes the Kinge dothe ofte extoll:<lb/> Bicause, he knowes they, doe but make a sporte,<lb/> His subiectes poore, th shaue, to pill, and poll?<lb/> And when he sees, that they are fatte, and full?<lb/> He cuttes them of, that he maye haue theire wolle?<lb/> Vnto a sponge, theise are resembled righte:<lb/> Which drie at firste, when it with water swelles,<lb/> The hande that late did wette it, being lighte:<lb/> The same againe, the moisture quite expelles.<lb/> And to the flood, from whence it latelie came,<lb/> It runnes againe, with wringinge of the same.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_15701"/><foreign lang="la">Orbem iam totum victor Romanus habebat,<lb/> Quà mare, quà terrae, quà sidus currit vtrumque,<lb/> Nec satiatus erat, grauidis freta pulsa carinis,<lb/> Iam peregrabantur, si quis sinus abditus vltra,<lb/> Si qua foret tellus, quae fuluum mitteret aurum, &c.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_15701" lang="la"><name type="author">Petrus Arbiter</name>.</gloss> </p> |
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A king squeezes water from a sponge; a crowd around a gibbet in the distance |
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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus |
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GUL EMBLEMS ILL_BOOK PLANTIN |
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11D 21D 25F31(+5262) 25F75(SPONGE) 26A 31A2321 31A2512(+933) 31A2512(+939) 31A2621(+52) 31A2723 31A5462 31D14 31D14(+79) 31E2355(+6) 41A343 41A351 41D233(+81) 44B113 44B127 44B191 44B192 44B197 44C1 44D40 44G342 46A17 47C521(+0) 48C1611 55CC11(+4) 86(QUOD NON CAPIT CHRISTUS, RAPIT FISCUS) |
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What Christ does not take, the treasury snatches |
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embstma_1667_pic151.jpg |
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Quod non capit Christus, rapit fiscus |