. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . IP HE Moimtaines huge 5that feemeto check the sky ^ And all the world, with greatnes ovcrpcere ^With Heath, or MolTe, for moil: part barren He :When valleis low, doth kindly Phcebiis cheere,And with his heate, in hedge and groiie virgin-Primrofe ^ or fweete Violets. So God 3 oft times denies vnto the giftes of Nature, or his heavenly grace,And thofe that high, in Honors chaire are fet,Doe feele their wantes,
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . IP HE Moimtaines huge 5that feemeto check the sky ^ And all the world, with greatnes ovcrpcere ^With Heath, or MolTe, for moil: part barren He :When valleis low, doth kindly Phcebiis cheere,And with his heate, in hedge and groiie virgin-Primrofe ^ or fweete Violets. So God 3 oft times denies vnto the giftes of Nature, or his heavenly grace,And thofe that high, in Honors chaire are fet,Doe feele their wantes, v/hen men of meaner place ^Although they lack, the others golden ipring,Perhaps are bleft ^ aboue the richeft King, Humilitas meretui vchomo virrutes occupet, Quia Humilibus Deus dat gratiam,Eeinard- in Epif- Seryat acccpta, quia non rcquiefcit fpiritus fant^tus nili fuper quietcir. ct humilem,tola ad SocrjiiH. Candor Car/dor- frnmuiiis. erit ■*, 5^. np H E burning glaffe ^that mdft doth gather fire , ^ While Sirim Dog doth parch the meddowes greenc ^Doth never biirne ( a thing we much admire )The cloth 3 or ftufife, that perfed white is feene :But foone cnflames, all ciillors elfe befide,The black, the blew, the red, and motley pide. To this fame glafTe, I {launder flill compare, . That by degrees, doth fubtilly gather heate^ And doth not with malicious cnvie fpare, The good 5 the bad, the little or the greate. Who though fhe hath, ore other vertues powef ,The confeience cleere, fhe never fhall devoure.
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