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 68
Serpent right. And by his f^6c, a Panther clofe you fee ,Who when he cannot eafily catch his pray,Doth hide his head, and face, with either knee,And fhcVv his back, with fpots beipcckled gay To other Beafres: which while they gaze vpon , Are vnavvares, furprized every one. Simulatorcs et… … P O N a Cock, he ere Gmhnede dotli fitWho erft rode mounted on lOFE S Eagles backjOne hand holdes Chces wand, and ioind with it ^Acuptop-fii*dwith poifon, deadly black: The other Meddals, of bafe mettals wrought,With fundry moneyes, counterfeit and nought • Thefe be thofe crimes, abhorrd of God and…
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