. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . To the ^ haue hecre ( kind Reader ) fent abroad vnto thyview , this volume oi Emblemes , whether forgreatncs of the chardge, or that the Inventionis not ordinaric ; a Subie^S: very rare. For exceptthe collections ofMafter PFhit»ejr^and the tranf-lations of fome one or tv\o elfc befide , I knownot 2i\\Engli(l}7nan in our age, that hath publidl-ed any worke of this kind: they being (I doubtnot) as ingenious, and happy in their invention, as the beft French orItalian

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . To the ^ haue hecre ( kind Reader ) fent abroad vnto thyview , this volume oi Emblemes , whether forgreatncs of the chardge, or that the Inventionis not ordinaric ; a Subie^S: very rare. For exceptthe collections ofMafter PFhit»ejr^and the tranf-lations of fome one or tv\o elfc befide , I knownot 2i\\Engli(l}7nan in our age, that hath publidl-ed any worke of this kind: they being (I doubtnot) as ingenious, and happy in their invention, as the beft French orItalian of them all. Hence perhaps they terme vs Tramontani Sempii ,Simple and of dull conceipt, when the fault is neither in the Climate ,nor as they would haue it, in the conftitution of our bodies, but truelyin the cold & frozen refpedt of Learning, and artes, generally amongftYs : comming far fhorte ^f them in the iuft valewing of well deferuingqualities. To begin at the foote of their Alfes, and fo difcend by Ger-mame(\\\\\c\\ Bodine truly termeth o^cinam hominum^tilioppe of ab-folute men for all Artes ) how flie hath excelled in t

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