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 70
er, and the vipers broode yAre faid to yeeld their ordinarie foode. To thefe infected races, I refemble,Of Traitors vile, as Gburie and the reft?To tell whofe legend, each good heart may tremble,While Pfilli-like,they fuck from Mothers breft,The poifon of the fires infected mind,TranfmiHing it, to… … np H E painefull Bee 3 when many a bitter fhower■*■ And (tonne had felt, farre from his hiue away ,*To feeke the fweeteft Hunny-bearing flower 3That might be found and was the pride of May:Heere lighting oil the fairft he mought efpie 3Is beate by Drones, the wafpe and butterflie . So men there are…
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