. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . TH E cheifert good, ( ah would fo good it were )That moft imaf^ine Honours bring with tliem,Wcpick from others praifes here and patch herewivh an Indian Diadem Of Parrats feathers, yocall favours light, And Plumes indecde3 whereto we haue no right« , He is not honourd that Difcents can Hiow,Nor he that can commaund a numerous lie to whomc the vulgar lout To low,Nor he that foliovves Falliion iiglit and vainc,S
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . TH E cheifert good, ( ah would fo good it were )That moft imaf^ine Honours bring with tliem,Wcpick from others praifes here and patch herewivh an Indian Diadem Of Parrats feathers, yocall favours light, And Plumes indecde3 whereto we haue no right« , He is not honourd that Difcents can Hiow,Nor he that can commaund a numerous lie to whomc the vulgar lout To low,Nor he that foliovves Falliion iiglit and vainc,Saluting windowcs, and around doth FR SA MAW R, fiarres from head to heeic ♦ Wc honour him^ whofe Ad^ions not deface,. The Glories which his Ancettors hauc wonnc. By Cowardife, or vicious lining bafe, Ne wrong for Pallion, or Affeciil hath done: In vvhome at once, Artes, Bountie, Valour, dwell,Contending each which other fliould excell, Kon Non alit, enccAt* 2 00. T H E laurelQ^ittnt, that long in fafctie ftood^y PENE^^S ftrcame, waterd by the N AI ADS oitho. flood,Andoftrcviiiedbyher Loner bright,The Wane afTaileth with her ^veiling might jAnd ovcrthrowes in time, ( but who doth knowTheir miierie, that neerc to Greatnes grow,) This facred Bay, is Learning and the Artes ,Li former times that flourillied at will,Now wafhd and worne by fome, even to the heartes ^Who fhould haue fuccourd and vpheld them ftill,Who catethe Corne ^but throw the Chafte to ikill:And what the Church had once to holy vfes,Semes them to pride ^ and all prophane abufes .> «PHOEBVS,whomc the Poet»fcigHc to haueloued he Bay »^meofDAPHNE,
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