Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures (1612)
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · [London, Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight.] · leaf 108
s mercie, of the worldes wide fca,Behold your faire, though counterfeited ftone 3So much you ioid ixi, on your wedding day, And tooke for true, how after it did proouc 3 Vnworthy Iewell, of fo worthy loue . Ah how can man, your fexe ( faire Ladies) blame 3Whofe brefts j are vermes pretious… … T> Y violence who tries to turnc away 3■*- Strong natures current 3 from the proper coiirle^To mooue the Earth 3he better were aflay 5Or wreft from loue,his thunderbolts perforce>Bid the Sphaeres ftay ,or ioine by art in.one ,Our Thames with Tyber, P/W<? with ?tlim. For nought at all…
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