A Booke of armes, or remembrance wherein ar one hvndered godly emblemata, in peeces of brasse very fine graven and adorned pleasant to be seen, first by the noble, and industrious minde Georgetta de Montenay, invented and only in the French tongve elabourated; Bot now, in severall langvages, as; Latin, Spanish, Italian, High dutch, English, and Lovedutch, meetre or verse wys, of the same manner declared, and augmented |
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[God hes vs given to that intent]
God hes vs given to that intent,His word, and teene commandement,
That wee in them, vs shall behold,
So long wee liue in this World:
But let vs have, a better grace,
As he that spettes, opon that glasse,
When they us show, very kleer,
That wee not liue, as God thus desire:
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