. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . d Fertel, feldome fet, The lowlie Ddijie, and fweete yiolet. Nor Princes richeft Arras may compareWith fomc fi-nall plot, where Natures skill is fhowcn ,Perfuming f\veetely ail the neighbour aire,While thouland cullors in anight arc blowne:H eres a light Crimfon, there a deeper one ^A Maidens blurh, here Purples, there a white ,Then all commingled for our more delight. Withall ( as in fome rarelimnd booke ) we find,Here, painted Ledures of Gods facred will,The I>4//?

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. Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, . d Fertel, feldome fet, The lowlie Ddijie, and fweete yiolet. Nor Princes richeft Arras may compareWith fomc fi-nall plot, where Natures skill is fhowcn ,Perfuming f\veetely ail the neighbour aire,While thouland cullors in anight arc blowne:H eres a light Crimfon, there a deeper one ^A Maidens blurh, here Purples, there a white ,Then all commingled for our more delight. Withall ( as in fome rarelimnd booke ) we find,Here, painted Ledures of Gods facred will,The I>4//?<?, mind,The Camomilly we fhould be patient ftill, • t- -^The Rue, our hate of vices poifon ill, ^^^ ^ ^ ;The Woodbine, that we fhould our frendChip hold IOur Hope, the *rie, in the bitterft cold, Yetloue the Citie, as the kindly NurfcOf all good Artes, and faire Civillitie; Where though with good, be intcrmixt the worfe ^That moft diftiurbe our fweete Tranquillitie:Content thy felfe, till thine Abillitie,And better hap, (liall anfwere thy defirc,* But Mufe bev/are, leaft we too high Omnis Omnis 41 De» Sapemi/t, im

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