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 76
3 oft times denies vnto the grcate.The giftes of Nature, or his heavenly grace,And thofe that high, in Honors chaire are fet,Doe feele their wantes, v/hen men of meaner place ^Although they lack, the others golden ipring,Perhaps are bleft ^ aboue the richeft King, Humilitas meretui vchomo virrutes… … np H E burning glaffe ^that mdft doth gather fire , ^ While Sirim Dog doth parch the meddowes greenc ^Doth never biirne ( a thing we much admire )The cloth 3 or ftufife, that perfed white is feene :But foone cnflames, all ciillors elfe befide,The black, the blew, the red, and motley pide. . To this…
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