. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . ■P HE watry willow, growing by the fliore, , -*- Of trees theformoft, forth her fruite doth fend,But laden with her bee-defired flore,Ere ten daies fully come vnto an end > HerPalmesfo fweete, weloudandlookt vpon, With Boreas breath, are blowne away and gone. To this fame tree, did Homer once compare, T Such heires as ftraight, their Patrimome wait,In ritous wife: and fuch as Artiftes are,Who gettin g much y do e z .fly as f aft: Eeke fuch of wit t or wealth, that
. Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures . ■P HE watry willow, growing by the fliore, , -*- Of trees theformoft, forth her fruite doth fend,But laden with her bee-defired flore,Ere ten daies fully come vnto an end > HerPalmesfo fweete, weloudandlookt vpon, With Boreas breath, are blowne away and gone. To this fame tree, did Homer once compare, T Such heires as ftraight, their Patrimome wait,In ritous wife: and fuch as Artiftes are,Who gettin g much y do e z .fly as f aft: Eeke fuch of wit t or wealth, that m ake a fhow s , In fubftance when y we find it hothin g fo . JFrogipcr&J Dilapidare cavenummos ecu nefcius vti Pdle tamen fcrdes, modus optima regularcruiH ♦ ^rilnusvclasj N2 Te 8y TV Perdices fcemina?rocem Nunquam decep-tus eft princepsnifi qui prius iplcdeceperir . Livi:lib: 4 in panegyr; *vnius invidiaeeculpa ab omni -bus Annal 3. * Hare conditioprincipfi vcquic-quid faciant pra>: decla-mac: 4. * : 17. 8 . Kafii: Dotoa« T H E Partwb young, inFoulers net y caught,Too late the error of their damme repent,For why ?her call them into daunger brought,And taught at firft, the heedeles way they went:Heereby are kinges our common nurfes ment,When to their ,themfelues become a pray yAnd by * example 3 thoufandes cafl awaie. Not heerevpon, as may of moft be thought,We fhould our Prince alike Rebells difobey,When they be Tyrants, or with * vices nought,Do haften others 3 arid their owhe decay :But to the Lord, like Chriftians rather prayFor mercie, who hath in his anger fent* Such wretches vile, to be our puniiriment. Dum tualqiia ciricis Icgfmus vcitigia paflimAlma pa
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