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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 215

An illustration from 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, leaf 215 — Ddi. And 1^1 And as we fitly INVANCIE compareVnto the S P RING Jo TO FTH we liken mayTolazie SVMMER, whot devoid of care:His middle Age to A l^TVMNE, his decayTo fVlNTER, fnowiewhite, andfroftie gray.For then his vigor failes, his heate is cold,And like the fapleflc Oake he dieth old. Vmi nature. … BEST BACCHFS Ivie thy faire brow befits.Thy winges withall ^that proud Gorgoneanhoi^t:Bccaufe thou addeft vigor to our wits,Heatc to our blood, vnto our bodic force:Mirth to our heartcs, vnto the dullard fprightA quick Invention, to the Sence deHght.

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