. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . \ N D ye great Ladie, that are left alone,-^* To mercies mercie, of the worldes wide lea,Behold your faire, though counterfeited ftone,So much you ioid in, on your wedding day, And tooke for true, how after it did prooue, Vnworthy lewell, of fo worthy loue . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies ) blame, Whofe brefts, are vertues pretious Carcanets, ..:. When he himfelfe, firft breakes the boundcs of {hame And deareft loue 5 a
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . \ N D ye great Ladie, that are left alone,-^* To mercies mercie, of the worldes wide lea,Behold your faire, though counterfeited ftone,So much you ioid in, on your wedding day, And tooke for true, how after it did prooue, Vnworthy lewell, of fo worthy loue . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies ) blame, Whofe brefts, are vertues pretious Carcanets, ..:. When he himfelfe, firft breakes the boundcs of {hame And deareft loue 5 and loialtie forgets:Yet heerein happie, ye aboue the reft ,Beloud of Hcauen, and in your children bleft . Fmlatm Tduhtim* 83. O Y violence who tries to turne away,■*^ Strong natures current, from the proper courfe,To mooue the Earth jhe better were aflay,Orwreftfrom /<?«?,his thunderbolts the Spheres ftay, or ioine by art in one,Our Thcimes with Tyher, Pmde with Pelio^. For nought at all heerein prevailes our might,With greater force (lie doth our ftrength withftand yThe River ftopt, his banke downe-beareth quite,And feldome boughes, are bent with ftubborne hand: When gentle vfage, feircenes doth allay,\ AndbringesintimejtheLiontoobay.
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