. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . np H E painefull Bee 3 when many a bitter fhower■*■ And (tonne had felt, farre from his hiue away ,*To feeke the fweeteft Hunny-bearing flower 3That might be found and was the pride of May:Heere lighting oil the fairft he mought efpie 3Is beate by Drones, the wafpe and butterflie . So men there are fometimes of good defert 3Who painfully haue laboured for the hiue y, Yet muft they with their merit ftand apart,■And giue a farre inferior leaue to thriue:Or be perhaps , (if g

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. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . np H E painefull Bee 3 when many a bitter fhower■*■ And (tonne had felt, farre from his hiue away ,*To feeke the fweeteft Hunny-bearing flower 3That might be found and was the pride of May:Heere lighting oil the fairft he mought efpie 3Is beate by Drones, the wafpe and butterflie . So men there are fometimes of good defert 3Who painfully haue laboured for the hiue y, Yet muft they with their merit ftand apart,■And giue a farre inferior leaue to thriue:Or be perhaps , (if gotten into grace )By wafpifh Emtie 3 beaten out of place,. Sic 5i Sic oplut mentes*

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