Minerva Britanna Or A Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, Newly devised, moralized, and published, By Henry Peacham |
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To my dread Soveraigne iames, King of great britaine.
A secret arme out stretched from the skie,
In double chaine a Diadem doth hold:
Whose circlet boundes, the greater Britannie,
From conquered Fravnce, to Thvle sung of old:
Great Iames, whose name be yond the inde is told:
To god obliged so by two-fold band,
As borne a man, and Monarch of this land.
In double chaine a Diadem doth hold:
Whose circlet boundes, the greater Britannie,
From conquered Fravnce, to Thvle sung of old:
Great Iames, whose name be yond the inde is told:
To god obliged so by two-fold band,
As borne a man, and Monarch of this land.
Thus since on heauen, thou wholly dost depend:
And from aboue thy Crowne, and being hast:
With malice vile, in vaine doth man intend,
T'vnloose the knot that God hath link't so fast:
Who shoot's at heaven, the arrow downe at last
Lightes on his head: and vengeance fall on them,
That make their marke, the Soveraigne Diadem.
And from aboue thy Crowne, and being hast:
With malice vile, in vaine doth man intend,
T'vnloose the knot that God hath link't so fast:
Who shoot's at heaven, the arrow downe at last
Lightes on his head: and vengeance fall on them,
That make their marke, the Soveraigne Diadem.
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