. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . O E E here our humane miseries in breife ,^ That doc our life, vnto the Lift amate,And fawce the fweete, with feare, and howerly griefc,Difealing oft, the high, and happieft ftate :A Rod 5 the world 3 a Woman, Ages greife,Which fower, the wifeft doe account the cheifc, His childifh yeares 3 the * Rodkeepesvnderftill,His youth with Loue , and ftrong atfedes is vext ,That headlong force him, ^ phable to ill,A retchlcs wite , and worldly cares are next: And when both youth

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . O E E here our humane miseries in breife ,^ That doc our life, vnto the Lift amate,And fawce the fweete, with feare, and howerly griefc,Difealing oft, the high, and happieft ftate :A Rod 5 the world 3 a Woman, Ages greife,Which fower, the wifeft doe account the cheifc, His childifh yeares 3 the * Rodkeepesvnderftill,His youth with Loue , and ftrong atfedes is vext ,That headlong force him, ^ phable to ill,A retchlcs wite , and worldly cares are next: And when both youth , and middle age be paft ^Difeafes ftraiinge, doe endhim at the yireo J^ireo tamert. 120

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