. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . *\ \ 7 HIL E (infull Sodome dreades the heavenly firCj 2«w. 3. ^^ ^ And Nero trembles at his fhadGWcs fight: - - This booke, the Herald of ^thAhnightiesIrc, * Doth on the howfe, of every fwearer light :To pimjfh iiiftly, fo prophane a finnc,With all the plagues, that arc containd therein. A warning good for fwearers, and for thofe 5That think (iich finnc , their adions only grace:And him the man, that can with fearefull oathcs,Blafpheme the Lord of heaven vnto his face:
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . *\ \ 7 HIL E (infull Sodome dreades the heavenly firCj 2«w. 3. ^^ ^ And Nero trembles at his fhadGWcs fight: - - This booke, the Herald of ^thAhnightiesIrc, * Doth on the howfe, of every fwearer light :To pimjfh iiiftly, fo prophane a finnc,With all the plagues, that arc containd therein. A warning good for fwearers, and for thofe 5That think (iich finnc , their adions only grace:And him the man, that can with fearefull oathcs,Blafpheme the Lord of heaven vnto his face: oi\i . But know prophane, ere many yeares be pad,A plague will come, with winged fpeede at laft. ^oshorret fibicvlJtmigncty TergA fua et Nemefi dat i arid da, A ero:Advolftaf7S ccelo liber htc rrqmevit m ilium 5 Nummafcri^ra qui vocat ore Da. Bternitas Periuriipana d&vina cxiium,humana deHeculCictr», I it Itgh-iut» In pfolem dilatt luunt periuriapatris. Et poenam mcri-Co films ore luit« Cittuaiati: Ex Bajiike K0f*r». A U T VIRGIN fairc, purtraided as you f&e yWithhairedifpred, in comelie wife behind;Within whofe handes, two golden balls there be :But from the breft jthe nether partes are twindWithin a ftarrie circle, do exprefTc,c -n Eternitiey or EverUfiingnes. ET ERN IT IE is young, and never old:I» ttcno nihil The circle wantes * beginning and the end:prztcritum eft, ^j^^ vncomiDt for cvcr lies the cold:rhkimdatf. The heaven her lightcs ror evermore did lend, The Heathen thought, though heauen &: earth muft palfe. And all in time decay that ever was. Dttram, Fuitquxdim ab infinito tempore xtcrnitas , quam nulla circumfcrlptio tera-porum meriebacur, (patio tamen qualis ca fueut xntelligi non poteft. Hei
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