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 95
d once her beaiitie fhowcn ;Which Lordcs ^ and Ladies, did fo much defire:But friiitles now, in winters froft, and fnow,It doth defpifd, and vnregarded grow. So fince ( old frend,) thy yeares haiie made thee white ,And thou for others, haft confunVd tliy fpring,How few regard thee, whome thou didft… … T^ H E Ermin heere, whomc eager hoiindes doc chale,■*• And hunters haue, around cnvirond in ,( As fome doe write ) will not come neere the place,That may with dirt, defile his daintie skinne :But rather choofeth, then the fame fhould foilc,Be torne with dogges, or taken with the toile . Me thinkes…
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