. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . Jiumanjt • QMidprodeftmanuii ferulaeminantis Tot pari poinastcneris fub annisEc meta fequiSamiu^Ti b cerniTranirc ; * Cercus in viti-. C E E here our humane miferies in breife,^ That doe our life, vnto the laft amate,And fawcc the fwecte, with feare, and howerly griefe^Difealing oft, the high, and happieft ftate ;A Rod 5 the world ^ a Woman, Ages greife,Which fower, the wifeft doe account the cheifc. His childifh year

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . Jiumanjt • QMidprodeftmanuii ferulaeminantis Tot pari poinastcneris fub annisEc meta fequiSamiu^Ti b cerniTranirc ; * Cercus in viti-. C E E here our humane miferies in breife,^ That doe our life, vnto the laft amate,And fawcc the fwecte, with feare, and howerly griefe^Difealing oft, the high, and happieft ftate ;A Rod 5 the world ^ a Woman, Ages greife,Which fower, the wifeft doe account the cheifc. His childifh yeares ^.the * Rod keepes vnder ftiil,His youth with Loue, and ilrong aifcdes is vcxt ^That headlong force him, ■* pliable to ill,A retchles wife , and worldly cares are next: And when both youth , and middle aee be pad ,Difeafes ftraunge., doe end him at the lall:. K/reo Vireo tamen. I20

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