. 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 F AMILIE iiiLibiasfaidtobe,-^^^ For prowefle, farre renowiVd aboue the reft:With whome no wholefoine diet can agree ,But eafilie, all poifon they digeft: The Afpe, the Adder, and the vipers broode ^Are faid to yeeld their ordinarie foode. To thefe infecled races, I refemble ,OF Traitors vile, as Goiirie and the reft,To tell whofe legend, each good heart may tremble ,While Bfilli - like ,x\-itY ftck from Mothers brcft ,The poifo
. 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 F AMILIE iiiLibiasfaidtobe,-^^^ For prowefle, farre renowiVd aboue the reft:With whome no wholefoine diet can agree ,But eafilie, all poifon they digeft: The Afpe, the Adder, and the vipers broode ^Are faid to yeeld their ordinarie foode. To thefe infecled races, I refemble ,OF Traitors vile, as Goiirie and the reft,To tell whofe legend, each good heart may tremble ,While Bfilli - like ,x\-itY ftck from Mothers brcft ,The poifon of the ftres infeded mind,TranfmifTing it, to theirs that come behind. O Horarius lib: 4. JFortes creaiitut fdrtibus ct bonis,Efl in iuvencis, eR- in Equis patrumVirtus: nee imbeciliem ferocesProgenerant Aquilx columbam, ros Vos vohis. 50. np H E painefuUBee, when many a bitter fnower ^■■ And ftorme had felt, farre from his hiiie away,To feeke the fweeteft Hunny-bearing flower,That might be found and was the pride of May:Heere hghting on the fairft he moiight eipie,Is beaie by Drones, the wafpe and butterflie . So men there are fometimes of good defert,Who painfully haue labourd for the hiiic,Yet muft they with their merit ftand apart,And eiue a farre inferior leaue to thriue:Or be perhaps, (if gotten mto grace )By wafpifh Envie, beaten out of place.
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