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 82
. So God 5 oft times denies vnto the greate,The giftes of Nature, or his heavenly grace,And thofe that high 3 in Honors chaire are ^ctyDoc feele their wantes, when men of meaner placeAlthough they lack, the others ^olden fpring,Perhaps arc bleft, aboue the richcftKing, :sK y: Hiimilitas meretur vt… … ^T^ H E burning glaffc , that moft doth eather fire , -*- While Sirian Dog doth parch the nieddowes greeneDoth never burne ( a thing we much admire )The cloth, or ftuffe, that perfed v/hitc is (ctno. :But foone enflames, all cullors elfe beiide,The black, the blew, the red, and motley pide. To this…
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