. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . \]\r HAT louely Goddeffe do mine eies behold ? ^ ^ That powers fuch plentie with her bounteous hand:Her name is BRTSf^S, whome the Greekes of old ,As Qiieene of dreames adord within their land:Whome if they ferud, devoutly as they fhould,They made no doubtjofhauing what they would • And well may j? ^ r 5 r^, be a Goddeffe thought 5 So many who with fancies vaine deceiues; Whome when fhc to fooles Paradice hath brought. For golden
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . \]\r HAT louely Goddeffe do mine eies behold ? ^ ^ That powers fuch plentie with her bounteous hand:Her name is BRTSf^S, whome the Greekes of old ,As Qiieene of dreames adord within their land:Whome if they ferud, devoutly as they fhould,They made no doubtjofhauing what they would • And well may j? ^ r 5 r^, be a Goddeffe thought 5 So many who with fancies vaine deceiues; Whome when fhc to fooles Paradice hath brought. For golden Apples ^ fcarcc fhe giucs them leaues:To vifions vaine, and dreames then take no heedc ,Which had in Chrift ^ their ending as you reade. Somnia fallaci ludunc tcmeraria no(fl:e ,Etpavidas meatcs falfa timere iubet. Cerno Dcx cffigiem , cuius fed dicito ? p r y s v s , QiJam numen credunt fomnia vana fuum:Fundit opes varias. ftukos fpe laftat inani, Quos buUis ditat craftina lufa dies. tihidmis Lihidinls effeCid. np H E Vifer when he doth engender, loc, -*- Thus downe the females throate, doth put his head,Which of fhebites 5as learned Authours fhow,And nere conceiues, before the male be dead: Eke when llie forth, her poifonous broode doth young ones likewife, bring her to her end. Of Beaftly luft, th effe^fites herein perceiuc, How deadly, and how dangerous they be. Of Hfe and foule, that doe at once bercaue , Turning abundance into beggery: Daughter of Sloth, vile cancker of the mind,Leaning repentance, and foule fhame behind • ScEvus criminum ftimulus libido eft, quae nunquam mancrequietum patitur affe(5lum, nodile fervet, die anhelat, Thrirer:ioApofthcg: ^tmutrditMttet Ccvi.
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