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 215
Ddi. And And as we fitly INF A NC IE compareVnto the SPRING Jo TO VTH we liken mayTo lazie S VMME R, whot devoid of care:His middle Age to AVTVMNE, his decay-To ivINTER, fnowie white, and froftie gray,For then his vigor failes, his heate is cold,And like the fapleffe Oake he dicth old. Vimmtura. … B EST B ACCHFS Ivie thy faire brow befits,Thy winges wkhall 5that proud Gorgonem horfe:Bccaufe thou addeft vigor to our wits,Heatc to our blood, vnto our bodie force :Mirth to our heartes, vnto thedullard fprightA quick Invention , to the Sencc delight.
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