. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . HE Poets faigne, 10VE tohaue beenc with child,But very ftraunge, concciud within his head ,And knowing not, his burthen how to yeeld,£o! MVL CIB ER doth bring the God abed rBy cutting with-an Axe_, hisskull in two,When hfueth PALL AS forth, with much adoev By P AL LAS, is all heavenly wifdome ment,Which not from Nature, and our felues proceedes,But is from God, immediately fent,.( For in our 3 how little goodnes brcedes )That threefold power of the Sbule againe Ref
. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . HE Poets faigne, 10VE tohaue beenc with child,But very ftraunge, concciud within his head ,And knowing not, his burthen how to yeeld,£o! MVL CIB ER doth bring the God abed rBy cutting with-an Axe_, hisskull in two,When hfueth PALL AS forth, with much adoev By P AL LAS, is all heavenly wifdome ment,Which not from Nature, and our felues proceedes,But is from God, immediately fent,.( For in our 3 how little goodnes brcedes )That threefold power of the Sbule againe Refembling God, .refideth in our braine.; ■->,-■. Some wits of men, fo dull and barren are, That without helpe o£ Art, no J&uite they brings. Whole Midwife mujft beKoile y, and endleffe care, And Conftancie, effecting everything t And thofe who wanting Eloquence, are mute,Someothe^.WyayfiiJieIOVE» muftyeeld their frukci :■; , T>ivlm ttf mvm& rmfm& when the Oaketdowne,eYetv one gather* : Theouil: Minimum debetlibere. chj nimi-nro libet. Senetain TmA: * Ignofcendoauxit magnicudi-nem pop: Roma-nus. Saluft; * Severieas amie-tit affiduitate au«choritatetn. Sent*etidt Glemtmi*.. SmminORdvie, np HE grcedie Eagle here, vpon the tree, *■ PROMETHEUS heart withteenedothpraryvpon,But this example doth admonifh theeOn wretches poore to hatie companion: To pitiethofe, on whome doth fortune frowne,And Tyrant-like, not more to crufh them downe. This plcaleth God, this Pietie commaundes,Nature, and Reafbn, * bids vs doe the like,Yea though our foes, doe fall into our handes,Wee fhould * haue mercie, not in malice ftrike :Who helpes the fick,and pities theoppreflfed,He liues to God, and doubtleffe dieth bleffed • Pulchrum eft eminere inter ilhiftres viros, Confulere patriae, parcete affii^tis, Fera caede abftulerc, terhpus atquc irae dare; Orbi quietem, Sseculo pacem fiio, Hsec fumnu virtus} petitur hac Caelum via, « Homo Homo
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