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 174
ion caft, But hauing one arme clofely arm^d, vndaunted. By thvpper law , he holdes his foe fo fajft. That downe his throate, that armed arme he fendes,And even the heart-ftringes, firom the bodic rcndcs. Which bold attempt, when ALE XAND E R kncw^^ Thy life is thine, i:r 5/^^CT/ri-^quoth he,… … WE E doe adore by nature, Princes good ,And gladly as our Parents, them obey ,But loath the * Monftcrs, that delight in blood.And thinke their People fent ihem for a prey; To whome the Lord, doth in his ludgmentrend,A loathed life, or elfe a fearefuU end. Once NEROS name, the world did quake to…
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