. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . they abide 3 Become as wild as thole 3 we fee doe blow In every feild, and hedge-row as we ride *. And though for beautie, once they did excell,They now haue loft 3 both cullor and the fmell • So many men, whome Nature hath endude,With rareft partes, of bodie, or the mind,Do in themfelues by Sloth, grow rancke and rude 3Not leauing any memorie behind, Saue that they liued heere y and fometime were 3* A needeles burthen which the Earth did beare- Cernis vt ignavuin corrumpa
. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . they abide 3 Become as wild as thole 3 we fee doe blow In every feild, and hedge-row as we ride *. And though for beautie, once they did excell,They now haue loft 3 both cullor and the fmell • So many men, whome Nature hath endude,With rareft partes, of bodie, or the mind,Do in themfelues by Sloth, grow rancke and rude 3Not leauing any memorie behind, Saue that they liued heere y and fometime were 3* A needeles burthen which the Earth did beare- Cernis vt ignavuin corrumpant otia corpus Ec mihi fiquis erat, dicendi casminis vfiis Vc capiant viciiim ni moveantur aqua;, Deficit, eftque minor facials inerte fitis, Ice nunc fortes vbi celfamagniDucit exemplis via , cur inertesTerga nudatis ? Superata tellusSidera donat. P2. * *f elluris inuulcpondus. Ovidtus. MINERVA BRITANNA: THE SECOWJD TJKTOR A GARDEN OF HERO Y- C A L Devices: furnifhed, and adorned with Em-blemes, and Impnfas of fimdry natures. Newly devifed ,moralized, andfubltfyed, BY HBNRY PEACH AM, Mr, of The Author to his-Muic. ICi I : -■:,■/ •--. ..v ,,;;A:«*A«*^\^^1
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