. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . A N D ye great Ladie, that are left alone,•^*> To mercies mercie, of the worldes wide fca,Behold your faire, though counterfeited ftone 3So much you ioid ixi, on your wedding day, And tooke for true, how after it did proouc 3 Vnworthy Iewell, of fo worthy loue . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies) blame 3Whofe brefts j are vermes pretious Garcaiiets,When he himfelfe 3 firfti5reakes the boundes of fhame 3And deareft loue, and loialtie forgets :Yet heerein happie 3
. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . A N D ye great Ladie, that are left alone,•^*> To mercies mercie, of the worldes wide fca,Behold your faire, though counterfeited ftone 3So much you ioid ixi, on your wedding day, And tooke for true, how after it did proouc 3 Vnworthy Iewell, of fo worthy loue . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies) blame 3Whofe brefts j are vermes pretious Garcaiiets,When he himfelfe 3 firfti5reakes the boundes of fhame 3And deareft loue, and loialtie forgets :Yet heerein happie 3 ye abou£ the reft ,Beloud of Heauen y and in your children bleft * Paufatw Tmhtim-. T> Y violence who tries to turnc away 3■*- Strong natures current 3 from the proper coiirle^To mooue the Earth 3he better were aflay 5Or wreft from loue,his thunderbolts perforce>Bid the Sphaeres ftay ,or ioine by art ,Our Thames with Tyber, P/W<? with ?tlim. For nought at all heerein prevaiies our might,With greater force fhe doth our ftrength withftand 5The River ftopt 3 cc his banke downe-beareth feldome bough es: are bent with ftubborne hand: When gentle vfage., feircenes doth allay 3\ And bringes in time, the Lion to
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