. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . A F A MIL IE in Libias faid to be,^* For proweffe , farre renownd aboue the reft:With whome no wholefome diet can agree 3But eafilie, all poifon they digeft : The Afpe, die Adder, and the vipers broode yAre faid to yeeld their ordinarie foode. To thefe infected races, I refemble,Of Traitors vile, as Gburie and the reft?To tell whofe legend, each good heart may tremble,While Pfilli-like,they fuck from Mothers breft,The poifon of the fires infected mind,TranfmiHing it, to th
. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . A F A MIL IE in Libias faid to be,^* For proweffe , farre renownd aboue the reft:With whome no wholefome diet can agree 3But eafilie, all poifon they digeft : The Afpe, die Adder, and the vipers broode yAre faid to yeeld their ordinarie foode. To thefe infected races, I refemble,Of Traitors vile, as Gburie and the reft?To tell whofe legend, each good heart may tremble,While Pfilli-like,they fuck from Mothers breft,The poifon of the fires infected mind,TranfmiHing it, to theirs behind. Horatius li&:4ode 4. : Fortes crearitur fortibus et bonis,Eft in iuvencis, eft in Equis patrumVirtus: nee imbecillem ferocesProgenerant Aquila? columbam = Vos Vos vohis. 50. np H E painefull Bee 3 when many a bitter fhower■*■ And (tonne had felt, farre from his hiue away ,*To feeke the fweeteft Hunny-bearing flower 3That might be found and was the pride of May:Heere lighting oil the fairft he mought efpie 3Is beate by Drones, the wafpe and butterflie . So men there are fometimes of good defert 3Who painfully haue laboured for the hiue y, Yet muft they with their merit ftand apart,■And giue a farre inferior leaue to thriue:Or be perhaps , (if gotten into grace )By wafpifh Emtie 3 beaten out of place,
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