. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . Ordo HT1 HE Common-wealth,whofeBafc is firmcly laid*■- On evened ground, of Iuftice and the right,By time or chaunge, in vainc we fee aflaide >.But where affe&ionoverfwaies with might: Confufion there, all vnto havock bringes 5. And vndermines, the thrones of mightieft Kinges • Our Englifli S TE P HEN, did take vnto him thisFaire fallingPlumc, refembling beft of all *.The new efbblfht goverment of his,Whereaseach feather keepes his ranck and fall:So fhould that f

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. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . Ordo HT1 HE Common-wealth,whofeBafc is firmcly laid*■- On evened ground, of Iuftice and the right,By time or chaunge, in vainc we fee aflaide >.But where affe&ionoverfwaies with might: Confufion there, all vnto havock bringes 5. And vndermines, the thrones of mightieft Kinges • Our Englifli S TE P HEN, did take vnto him thisFaire fallingPlumc, refembling beft of all *.The new efbblfht goverment of his,Whereaseach feather keepes his ranck and fall:So fhould that ftate 3 (let Fortune doc her worft 3)As faire 3 and firme, as ever at the firft. The ImprefeofKing Stephen.

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