. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . To the ^F^ hauc heerc ( kind Reader ) fent abroad vnto thyview , this volume o^ Emhlemes , whether forgreatnes of the chardge, or that the Inventionis not ordinaric : a Subied: very rare. For exceptthe collcilions ofMafterw6/>«^7, of fome one or two elfe befide , I knownot an Englifhman in our age, that hath publidl-ed any worke of this kind: they being (I doubtnot) as ingenious, and happy in their inv
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . To the ^F^ hauc heerc ( kind Reader ) fent abroad vnto thyview , this volume o^ Emhlemes , whether forgreatnes of the chardge, or that the Inventionis not ordinaric : a Subied: very rare. For exceptthe collcilions ofMafterw6/>«^7, of fome one or two elfe befide , I knownot an Englifhman 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 Sempi,Simple and of dull conceipt, when the fault is neither in the Climate ,nor as they w ould haue it, in the conftitution of our bodies, but truclyin the cold & frozen refpe(ft of Learning, and artes, generally amongftTs ; comming far fhorte of them in the iuft valewing of well deleruingqualities. To begin at the foote of their Alps^ and fo difcend by Ger-»z/?»/V(which Boaine truly termeth ojficinam homintim^zfhoppe of ab-fblute men for all Artes ) how fhe hath excelled in this,
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