. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . nr HVS H £ie crz,£ 5, the Romanes did devife 5 ^ And ill their Temples 3 him a place affignd:To reprefent vnto the peoples eies,The image o^^ th* Heroique virtuous mind :Who like ALCID ES ^tohtt laftingpraifc ,In adion ftill, delightes to Ipend her dayes. Within whofe hand, three apples are of gold ^The fame which from th Hefperidcs he fetcht,Tlicfe are the three Heroique vertues old,The Lions skinne, about his fhoulders flretcht
. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published . nr HVS H £ie crz,£ 5, the Romanes did devife 5 ^ And ill their Temples 3 him a place affignd:To reprefent vnto the peoples eies,The image o^^ th* Heroique virtuous mind :Who like ALCID ES ^tohtt laftingpraifc ,In adion ftill, delightes to Ipend her dayes. Within whofe hand, three apples are of gold ^The fame which from th Hefperidcs he fetcht,Tlicfe are the three Heroique vertues old,The Lions skinne, about his fhoulders flretcht,Notes fortitude ^his Clubbe the crabbed paine ^To braue atcheiuements, ere we can attaine. Meciim honor ctlaudes, ctlxto eloriavultu,Et deciis J ct nivcis ViCloiia concolor alis:M • cia fi:us Laiuo ptrducit ad aftra tiiumphus,Calja nijhi doaius, ec cdfo ftant coiie Virtus Iiojninisproprimn bonuMTactcus lib: ]. Moderadooofanger. ». Contempt ofplcafure. ., 3. Abftinencc from covctB-«uines. Silins Itjfl: lib 15Virtus loqui-tur S:c -/ ^7 , sic vtik dutci, Adgeneropl^mumet opt: fperuivefiem NohilemD .C .M. In Italiammitcrrime TH E Spartan virgines, ere they had compofed yTheire Girlonds, of the faireft flowers to fight:The wholefomft herbes, they heere withall inclofed ^And fo their hcades, full iollily they dight,In memorie of that fame leach they wright;Who firft brought fimples, and their vfe to light« So ye braue Lord, who hke the heavenly Sphaerc,Delight in motionjand aboutc to roame:Mud learne to mixe in travaile farre and neerc ,With plcafure profile, that returning home v Your skill, and luc^gment, more may make you knowcn^Then your French fuite, or locke fo growen. lipf : InEp;ft:ad p^ whos he, thats not ravifht with delight, Farre Countries, Courtes, and Cities^ itrauiig tolec 5 To 38. To banc old Rome, prcfcnted to his ^gnt: Trijy-walls,or Virgils fwectc Partherjope. * Yet nothing wortli, vnles ye herewith find,The fniites of ski
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