. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . Horatius, I T was the Cuftome of the Thraciam they would ore a frozen river paiTe , To take a Fox 5and turne hiin for the Nonce, Vpon the Ice, to try how thick it was, \A/Tio to the flreame, by laieng downc his care,Could heare the noife, and know the thicknes there, Which if he found to tender for his weight,He back returnd, and thankt them, he would none ^Which llieweth vs of fomc, the fubtile Height ^Who hazard firft,

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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 . Horatius, I T was the Cuftome of the Thraciam they would ore a frozen river paiTe , To take a Fox 5and turne hiin for the Nonce, Vpon the Ice, to try how thick it was, \A/Tio to the flreame, by laieng downc his care,Could heare the noife, and know the thicknes there, Which if he found to tender for his weight,He back returnd, and thankt them, he would none ^Which llieweth vs of fomc, the fubtile Height ^Who hazard firft, the poore, and weaker one To fcrue their turnes, whomc God prcferueth oft,When they themfelues, within the pit are caught». Plutarch J In In timidos et iaBantes •

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