. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . A VIR G IN naked, on a Dragon fits,•^* One hand out-ftretchd, a chriftall glafTe doth fhow:The other bearcs a dart, that deadly hits 5Vpon her head, a garland white as fliow, Of ^ print and Lillies. Beautie moft defird, Were I her painter, ihoiild be thus attird. Her nakcdnes vs tells, ihe needes no art: Her ghffe, how \^e by {ight are mooud to loiic , The woundes vnfelt, thats giuen by the Dart At firft, (though deadly we it aft
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . A VIR G IN naked, on a Dragon fits,•^* One hand out-ftretchd, a chriftall glafTe doth fhow:The other bearcs a dart, that deadly hits 5Vpon her head, a garland white as fliow, Of ^ print and Lillies. Beautie moft defird, Were I her painter, ihoiild be thus attird. Her nakcdnes vs tells, ihe needes no art: Her ghffe, how \^e by {ight are mooud to loiic , The woundes vnfelt, thats giuen by the Dart At firft, (though deadly we it after prooue ) The Dragon notes loues poifbn: and the flowers,The frailtie ( Ladies ) of that pride of yours • Cumque aliquis dicet, fuit hsec formofa, dolebis;Et fpeculum meiidax, efle qucrere tuuin. Nee femper violse, ncc fempcr Lilia florent:Et riget ami {fa Ipina reii<ftar<5fa. Ki. nil * Albtliguftittcadunt —- Ond: 1. dc Ar-te amandi. Idem. 59 Nil hie * Nee magntf res fuftineri pofluntI abcOjCuifilere grave eft. Cur-I tius lib : 4 . I Arift:4, Ethic. Imminuunt Dic-tcria Maieflat« in. Ad vinum pro M :Celio. A SILVER Salt, heere on the Tabic ftaiides,-^^^ On which the peace-fiill Turtle Done doth fit ^Whoatthebordja^ filent tongue commaundes :The Salt, that we fhould feafon ftill with itDifcoiirles honeft, not with idle tongue,Speake what we lift, to doe another wrong. Some men there are, whofe glories to depraue,With ill report, a man behind his back,And then fuppofe, their credits beft they faue ,With ilaunder s vile, when tiiey anothers crack;When wifedome (laid, will let fuch leafinges reftAnd ipeake even of, her enimie the beft.
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