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 184
Jmm Jtjani imfetii. … nn H E Crocodile along th* ^giptian NILE^-*- That liirkes to make the pafTenger his pray,The moft of all delightcs, to robbe and fpoilcThe Hunny-hiues 5 were he not kept awayBy Saffron planted, round on every fide ,Which this (lie theife ^ could never yet abide. This Crocodile,I count the Ghoftly…
Emblems · Emblem books, English
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