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 122
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