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 94
meanethwell5andisoflifevprightjIs railily cenfurd, by the vulgar blind,Throu2;h vaine Opinion: or vile envious fpitc : But if thou knowft, thy ^ confcience cleere within jWhat others fay, it matters not a pinnc. * Bona confcicR-tia quotidic vircf-cic, laboribusnonaifligicur.af- ficit gaudio… … T F that the Well we draw, and emptie oft:^ The water there rcmaineth fweete and good:But Handing long, it growcs corrupt and naught,And femes no more, by reafon of the nuidde,In Summer hot, to coole our inward heate,To wafh 3 to water, or to dreffe our meate . So 3 if we doe not excercife our wit,…
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