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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Piorum vita luctuosa.
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Piorum vita luctuosa.
To the modest and virtuous minded, Mrs. Elizabeth Apsley, attending vpon the most exellent Princesse, the Ladie Elizabeth her grace.
While that the Mavis, and the morning Larke,
Doe cheerely warble their delicious straines,
The Turtle likes the shade, and thickets darke,
And solitarie by herselfe remaines,
Recording in most dolefull wise her woe,
Letting the pleasures, of the season goe.
Doe cheerely warble their delicious straines,
The Turtle likes the shade, and thickets darke,
And solitarie by herselfe remaines,
Recording in most dolefull wise her woe,
Letting the pleasures, of the season goe.
The godly wight, whome no delight of Sinne,
Doth with vaine pleasure draw: or worldly care,
Esteemeth not, these fleeting Ioies a pinne:
But to the Lord, in private doth repaire,
With quiet Conscience; when the wicked oft,
Are in the mid'st, of all their pleasures caught.
Doth with vaine pleasure draw: or worldly care,
Esteemeth not, these fleeting Ioies a pinne:
But to the Lord, in private doth repaire,
With quiet Conscience; when the wicked oft,
Are in the mid'st, of all their pleasures caught.
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