A booke of armes, or remembrance wherein ar one hundered godly emblemata, in péeces if brasse very fine graven, and adorned pleasant to bé séen; first by the noble, and industrious minde Georgetta de Montenay, invented and only in the Frenchtongve [sic] elabourated; bot [sic] now, in severall langvages, as; Latin, Spanish, Italian, Highdutch, English, and Lovedutch, meetre or verse wys, of the same manner declared, and augmented.

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Title: A booke of armes, or remembrance wherein ar one hundered godly emblemata, in péeces if brasse very fine graven, and adorned pleasant to bé séen; first by the noble, and industrious minde Georgetta de Montenay, invented and only in the Frenchtongve [sic] elabourated; bot [sic] now, in severall langvages, as; Latin, Spanish, Italian, Highdutch, English, and Lovedutch, meetre or verse wys, of the same manner declared, and augmented.
Author: Montenay, Georgette de, 1540-ca. 1581.
Publication: [Frankfurt] :: Printed by care, and charges, of Iohann-Carl Vnckels, a booke seller in Franckfurtt an Mayn,; Anno MDCXIX. [1519]
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Subject terms: Emblems -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "A booke of armes, or remembrance wherein ar one hundered godly emblemata, in péeces if brasse very fine graven, and adorned pleasant to bé séen; first by the noble, and industrious minde Georgetta de Montenay, invented and only in the Frenchtongve [sic] elabourated; bot [sic] now, in severall langvages, as; Latin, Spanish, Italian, Highdutch, English, and Lovedutch, meetre or verse wys, of the same manner declared, and augmented." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07653.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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LXXXIX. ANGLICE.
What a ioy, is to a godly man,
When he sées, the Death so wan,
Before him stande, and thus vn lóose,
His body, out of this malitiouse,
World: in which he liued so long,
In misery, troble and wrong,
But sée the wiked, they wil fraune,
When they perseue, the Death thus come.