. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . T F that thy Fortunes haue their heigthattaind J-■ Andbidtheenotongreatnes 5/^ 5 £ to feare ,Let not with that preferment thou haft gaind ,Vnwonted Pride, or Infolcnce appearc: But how much higher thou art placd in fight,So much the lefTe affed thy ftate and might. For Honors , know, but lend Ambition wingc ,And like falfe mirrours, make vs feeme too greatc ^Vpborne by vulgar breath, (the vaineft thing,)Till all be melted by the

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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 . T F that thy Fortunes haue their heigthattaind J-■ Andbidtheenotongreatnes 5/^ 5 £ to feare ,Let not with that preferment thou haft gaind ,Vnwonted Pride, or Infolcnce appearc: But how much higher thou art placd in fight,So much the lefTe affed thy ftate and might. For Honors , know, but lend Ambition wingc ,And like falfe mirrours, make vs feeme too greatc ^Vpborne by vulgar breath, (the vaineft thing,)Till all be melted by the Soveraigne heate;That leftabandond, in a truftlelTe aire,We drownc within an Ocean of mi Nil viribm impar,

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