. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . TW O fircndes there were that did their lourncy take,And by the way, they made a vow to cither,What ere befell, they never would forfakc,But as fworne brethren, Hue and die togeither: Thus wandring thorough deferts, here and there ^By chance they met, a great and vgly Beare. At whomc, amazed with a deadly fcare ,Gne Icaues his frend, and climbeth vp a tree;The other, falles downe flat before the Seare,Aiid keepes his breath, that
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . TW O fircndes there were that did their lourncy take,And by the way, they made a vow to cither,What ere befell, they never would forfakc,But as fworne brethren, Hue and die togeither: Thus wandring thorough deferts, here and there ^By chance they met, a great and vgly Beare. At whomc, amazed with a deadly fcare ,Gne Icaues his frend, and climbeth vp a tree;The other, falles downe flat before the Seare,Aiid keepes his breath, that feeming dead to be ,The Beare forfooke him, ( for his natures fuch^A breathles bodie never once to touch . ) The beaft departing, and the daunger paft. The dead arofe, and kept along his waie ; His fellow leaping from the tree at. laft , Askt what the Beare , ins eare did whifpring fay ^Qiioth he, he bad me , evermore take heede,Of fuch as thou , that failil in time of necde <, lx<ffopi£»bm Levim HP Levtta4* EcdcHaft: C*(: Ripa A Y O V T H arraid, in fundry cullors light,■^^ And painted plumes that ovcrfpred his creft:Dcfcribcs the varieng and fantaftiquc wight,( * ForUke ourmindes, we commonly are dreft:)His right hand holdes, the bellowes to his eare,His left, the quick, and Ipcedic (purre doth beare. SuchisCapriccio ,or thvnftaied mind,Whome thoufand fancies howerly doe polTcfle ^For riding poft, with every blaft of wind,In nought hees fteddie, faue vnftabienes;Mufitians, Painters, and Poetique crew,Accept what RIP A^ dedicates to you.
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