Il vaut mieux faire envie que pitié=--It is better to be envied than pitied.
They that envie my being a King, are loth I should be a Christian: while they seek to deprive me of all things else, they are afraid I should save my Soul.
By controlling the graces and manners of others, he shall acquire unto himselfe envie of the good and contempt of the bad.
For, it seemeth that as the sea-billowes and surging waves, rage and storme against the surly pride and stubborne height of our buildings, so are there above, certaine spirits that envie the rising prosperities and greatnesse heere below.
For well I weene thou canst not but envie My wealth, compar'd to thine owne miserie, That art so leane and meagre waxen late That scarse thy legs uphold thy feeble gate.
Or is it envie, and can envie dwell In heav'nly brests?
In the preface he says: "Le grand chancelier Bacon m'ayant fait naitre l'envie de travailler a ces emblemes .
Si l’envie m’en prend = If I feel inclined to do it.
And will so envie Both to future times, 15 That they would buy thy Goodnesse, with thy Crimes.
Thy Vertues and thy Worth are such, That, many doe envie thee much; And, they that hate thee, take delight To doe thee mischiefe and despight.
Nor envie me that my Castara's flame Yeelds me a constant warmth: Though first I came To marriage happy Ilands: Seas to thee Will yeeld as smooth a way, and winds as free.
Bright Saint, thy pardon, if my sadder verse, Appeare in sighing o're thy glorious hearse, To envie heaven.
This onely I dare say, that if they are not strangled with envie of the present, they may happily live in the not dislike of future times.
My Lord, Forgive my envie to the World; while I Commend those sober thoughts, perswade you The glorious troubles of the Court.
I envie not, but glory in thy fate, While in the narrow limits of my state I bound my hopes.
Then envie circles us with hate, And lays a siege so streight, No heavenly succor enters in: But if Revenge admittance finde, For ever hath the mind Made forfeit of it selfe to sinne.
Envie ys lavendere of the court alway; For she ne parteth neither nyght ne day Out of the house of Cesar, thus saith Daunte.
In the Parson's Tale Chaucer says: "Envie and ire maken bitternesse in heart, which bitternesse is mother of accidie.
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