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Enclosed within a turned case, the lid of which is similarly decorated with the royal arms of the time of Queen Elizabeth and the motto, 'DIEV ET MON DROIET'; the whole is surrounded by a border of floral and interlacing ornament between two narrower bands of fruit devices. \r\n\n\nThe following are the quotations on the individual roundels (from dept documentation):\r\n\n333 \na) In the sweat of thy face shalte thou eate thy breade 'tyll thou be turned agayne unto earthe whence thou art take. Geness 3\t[Gen. 3.19.]\r\nb) An idel hand malceth poore but a quick labouring hand maketh riche Prvs 10.\t[Prov. 10.4.]\r\nc) Man ys borne too laboure as the byrde for to flye Jobe 5. [Job 5.7.]\r\n\r\n333A \na) The lipes of an harlotte are a dropynge honycombe and her throte softer than oyle Proverbs 5 [Proverbs 5.3.]\r\nb) Many have pereyshed throwe the beautye of women Eccles 19 [sic] [Ecclesiastes 9.8.]\r\nc) He that loveth harlottes spendeth awaye that he hath Provs 29 [Proverbs 29.3.]\r\n\r\n333B\na) Where ys wo were ys Sorrowe wher ys Strife where ys brawling. Is yt not a monge thosse\r\nthat be ever at y<sup>e</sup> wyne 26 Proverebes\t[Prov: 28:29.]\r\nb) Wyne was made from the beginning to make men glade Tymos 1. [sic] [Ecclesiasties 31.27]\r\nc) Wyne soberly dronken quickeneth the lyffe of man. 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Condition 'Coours and gilding much worn.'\r\n\r\nOn the case is written \"T, Smith from Ann Smith 14 June 1826 York.\" The roundels were the property of Mrs. Sarah Smith of 25, Bath Street, Southport, and were purchased from her through Mr. Charles Dee. (See R.P's 23671, 24597, 25371, 22975, 19287, all 1898.)","historicalContext":"For contextual information, see Victoria Yeoman, ‘Speaking plates: text, performance, and banqueting trenchers in Early Modern Europe’, in Renaissance Studies Vol. 31 No. 5, pp. 755-779","briefDescription":"Set of roundels, English, 1590-1610, painted sycamore, Biblical quotations","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lawrence J. Ross, 'The Meaning of Strawberries in Shakespeare' in Studies in the Renaissance, 1960, Vol. 7 (1960), pp. 225-240; p.231\n\n'It was perhaps inevitable that the proverb should also be frequently applied to beautiful women. In this sense it often appears in Elizabethan writings, as for example in Lyly's <i>Euphues</i> in a discussion of the female disposition.13 An important extension of this sense resulted in application of the proverb's basic thought to the seeming beauties of love itself: 'O loue, a plague, though grac'd with gallant glosse, For in thy seates a snake is in the mosse'.14 This point helps to account pearance of the strawberry in two indicative pieces of Elizabethan minor art in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). The first is a linen panel embroidered in black silk from the end of the sixteenth century, entitled 'The Shepheard Buss'. The lover complains (in rebus emblems) that false Cupid has wounded him to death. Four appropriate devices from Paradin are in the corners of the inner square of the piece, and one of these is the 'Latet anguis in herba'.15 The other piece (Acquisition No. 333A-I898) is a trencher of sycamore (c. 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