. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . 0v»{.M«t4Mt 10 * Adonis. T M V C H (lid mufc, why Venm could not brooke,-■- The favadge Boare, and Lion cruell fcirce,Since Kinges and Princes, haue fiich pleafiirc tookeIn hunting: haply caufe a Boare did peirceHer Adon faire ^ who better likt the iport,Then fpend his daies, in wanton pleafures court, Which fidion though devifd by Poets brainc, It fim-iifies vnto the Reader this 5 Such exercife Loue will not entertainc^ Who liketh beft ^ to Hue in Idlenes :The foe to v
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . 0v»{.M«t4Mt 10 * Adonis. T M V C H (lid mufc, why Venm could not brooke,-■- The favadge Boare, and Lion cruell fcirce,Since Kinges and Princes, haue fiich pleafiirc tookeIn hunting: haply caufe a Boare did peirceHer Adon faire ^ who better likt the iport,Then fpend his daies, in wanton pleafures court, Which fidion though devifd by Poets brainc, It fim-iifies vnto the Reader this 5 Such exercife Loue will not entertainc^ Who liketh beft ^ to Hue in Idlenes :The foe to vertue 3 Cancker of the wit,That bringes a thoufand miferies with it. Exofos Vcneri lepores mirare fugaccs ,Silueftrcs ceruos ,fetjgcrumquc genus > Ex anitnis cecidit vel quod ^ Cyiiareius Heros,Aut his quod non fit lufibus aptus amor , Zelm To my Father, M r, Henry Peacham * of Levee ton in ,Holland, in the Countie of Line ; 170. \j\7 ITH Breaftenflamdjandlongingheartcsdcfirc,^ ^ Thus winged Zeale, to heauen-ward cafles her cic •And loathing what the world doth moft admire 3Vpborne by Faith, afcendes aboue the skic: Whereby Oh God, thy mifteries wc learne. And all beyond 3 our reafons fight difcernc. And as the Ban emboft, doth long to taftThe pearly-trickUng ftreame, or Chriftall fount ^Even fo the foule, by Sinne purfude and chafd,Thee , thee, ( oh Lord }defires, who doft furmount All treafures, plcafurcs, which we here pofTefle ^ The fumme and fubftance, of our happines. Nullum omnipoteRtiDeo tale eft lacrincium_,quale eft zelus aninianim, *»»» Ei^thiei: Animi acrimonia cum adPietatem accefferit, zelum parit, zelus ifa7jan\en:oraxautem fidei prafidiumeft, aj. A n c» . SAn[iitas 171 Ssn^itas ftmuUta. \ Tberc is morepride, vndcr oneof their blackBonnets, the vn-dcr AlexandersDiademe. Kinglaines in his Bih-licon Doron : Earlc Gouricone of the grca-tell Puritanej ofhis time in Scot-Ian d, in his tra-vaile
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