. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . «ro»\ iSp Hand 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

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . «ro»\ iSp Hand 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

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