. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . yiu. /^ F all our life 5 behold the veryfujiime ,^^ \^^hich as this flower , eoiitiniies but a day :Our youth is morue, our middle age is comeBy noonc, at night as doc decay ,As doth this Liliie flowriiig with the Sunne ^But withered ere, his race be fully runne . Wherefore our lifes refcmiblcd to a (liippe ,Which paiTeth on ^ though we doe what wc pleafeA fhade, a flower y that every froil doth nippc,A dreame, a froath ^ a wane vpon the Seas,Which hath a while

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . yiu. /^ F all our life 5 behold the veryfujiime ,^^ \^^hich as this flower , eoiitiniies but a day :Our youth is morue, our middle age is comeBy noonc, at night as doc decay ,As doth this Liliie flowriiig with the Sunne ^But withered ere, his race be fully runne . Wherefore our lifes refcmiblcd to a (liippe ,Which paiTeth on ^ though we doe what wc pleafeA fhade, a flower y that every froil doth nippc,A dreame, a froath ^ a wane vpon the Seas,Which hath a while his being, till anon ySome elfe intrude, and hees forgot and gon. Cbrylofiom, Cun;5ta mortalium incerta, quantoque plus adcptus /is , tanto te ilaagis Tacitus i Aanal,in lubrico ccnfeas . Brcvisdt vita, et breyitas ipfa fsmpcr incerta. VivitU Aagufi 1 dc ^t%bis Demini, 8z Vhiti^.

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