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 200
ch fidion though devifd by Poets brainc, It fim-iifies vnto the Reader this 5 Such exercife Loue will not entertainc^ Who liketh beft ^ to Hue in Idlenes :The foe to vertue 3 Cancker of the wit,That bringes a thoufand miferies with it. Exofos Vcneri lepores mirare fugaccs ,Silueftrcs ceruos… … \j\7 ITH Breaftenflamdjandlongingheartcsdcfirc,^ ^ Thus winged Zeale, to heauen-ward cafles her cic •And loathing what the world doth moft admire 3Vpborne by Faith, afcendes aboue the skic: Whereby Oh God, thy mifteries wc learne. And all beyond 3 our reafons fight difcernc. And as the Ban emboft,…
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