Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, (1612)
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?, Dight, Walter, d. 1618, printer · London : Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight · leaf 114
s mercie, of the worldes wide fea ,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 louc . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies) blame,VVhofe brefts, are vertues pretious… … D Y violence who tries to tunic away,-*- Strong natures current, from the proper courfe,To mooue the Earth jhe better were aflay,Or wreft from loue jhis thunderbolts perforce,Bid the Spha^res ftay ,or ioine by art in one ,Oux Thames ^ii^Tyber jFrndc^ithPelidrf, For nought at all heercin prevailes…
Emblems · Emblem books, English
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