Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published (1612)
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · London : Printed ... by Wa. Dight · leaf 108
mercie, of the worldes wide lea,Behold your faire, though counterfeited ftone,So much you ioid in, on your wedding day, And tooke for true, how after it did prooue, Vnworthy lewell, of fo worthy loue . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies ) blame, Whofe brefts, are vertues pretious Carcanets,… … O Y violence who tries to turne away,■*^ Strong natures current, from the proper courfe,To mooue the Earth jhe better were aflay,Orwreftfrom /<?«?,his thunderbolts perforce.Bid the Spheres ftay, or ioine by art in one,Our Thcimes with Tyher, Pmde with Pelio^. For nought at all heerein prevailes…
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