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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Embleme IV

XVI. Geffrey Whitney

THE TRAUAYLINGE man vncertain where to goe

When diuers waves before his face did lie,

Mercurius then the perfect pathe did showe;

Which when he tooke, hee neuer went awrie,

But to his wishe his iorney’s ende did gaine,

In happie howre, by his direction plaine.

This trauailinge man doth tell our wandringe state,

Before whose face and eeke on euerye side,

By-pathes and wayes appeare amidd our gate,

That if the Lorde be not our onlie guide,

We stumble, fall, and dailie goe astraye:

Then happie those whome God doth shew the waye.