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 206
the aiery-footed Stagge:And while they keepe, the merry chafe m view,The woodcs with Ecchos thundring, Lone doth iaggeBehind the thickets, and with arrow keene ^Doth lie in waite, to wound this maiden Quccnc. But all in vaine he doth his fhaftes bcftow ^For Labout did this Goddeffc faire defend,And… … np HE gentle Merlion, wearied long with flight,-*- While on the ipray in fhadie groue (he fleepes,With tender foote, a Larke fhe holdeth light,Which till the morning carefully fhckecpes,Then lets it goe, and leaft fhe fhoiild that dayPricie on the fame, (he flies another way. Such thanckfuUncs in…
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