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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Quem timuisti, timet.
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Quem timuisti, timet.
Ad BRITANNIAM.
With haire dishevel'd, and in mournefull wise,
Who spurnes a shippe, with Scepter in her hand:
Thus BRITANE's drawen in old Antiquities,
What time the Romanes, overran her land:
Who first devis'd her, sitting in this plight,
As then their captiue, and abandon'd quite.
Who spurnes a shippe, with Scepter in her hand:
Thus BRITANE's drawen in old Antiquities,
What time the Romanes, overran her land:
Who first devis'd her, sitting in this plight,
As then their captiue, and abandon'd quite.
But what can long continue at a stay,
To all thinges being, Fates a change decree:
Thrice-famous Ile, whome erst thou didst obey,
Vsurping Roome, standes now in aw of thee:
And trembles more, to heare thy Soveraignes name,
Then thou her Drummes, when valiant Cæsar came.
To all thinges being, Fates a change decree:
Thrice-famous Ile, whome erst thou didst obey,
Vsurping Roome, standes now in aw of thee:
And trembles more, to heare thy Soveraignes name,
Then thou her Drummes, when valiant Cæsar came.
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