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 143
befiridcs the bow,-■- And knowing well, the daungcr vnderneath, Yet bufilie doth fiw the fame in two, Like idle Ape, though to his prefent death: ., ;^^^Which if he had forborne, and let it grow ^He free from harme, had fcapt the pikes beloW. To this i^me Idiot, fuch we liken may,Of truftie Frendes… … Carol! VrffmSymbolum Gno-me vera muuta. * Dijnos homi-nes quafi pilas habent. Plautus .SothePhilofo-phers hjue here-tofore dyd. T^ H E Tefinis-hally when flruckea to the ground , -■- With Racket, or the gentle Schook-boies hand ,With greater force, doth back againe rtboiind ,His Fate, (though…
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