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 66
cate to wits divine,The fruite of Bacchus that in cluflers growe,Are fuch as doe cnioy the world at v/ill,And (winimc in wealth, yet want the mufes skill. This frendfnip fliould inviolate remaine ,The ^ rich with Bountie lliould rcwarde the Artes,The living mufe fliould gratefully againe,Adorne… … T H E meanes of wifedomc, heere a booke is feenc,Sometime the glory of great Salomon,A Cedar branch, with Hyfope knotted greene.The heart and eie withall, placd herevpon:For from the Cedar faith the Text he knew ^Vnto the Hyfope, all that ever grew. The eie and heart, doe fhew that Princes mijft…
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