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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Innocentiam iniurÿs maximè obnoxiam esse.
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Innocentiam iniurÿs maximè obnoxiam esse.
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Cat, the Cock held prisoner in her paw,
And said of Birdes, he most deseru'd to die,
For that contrarie vnto Natures Law,
His kindred he abus'd incestuously:
His Mother, Sisters, and a noise did keepe,
With crowing still, when others faine would sleepe.
And said of Birdes, he most deseru'd to die,
For that contrarie vnto Natures Law,
His kindred he abus'd incestuously:
His Mother, Sisters, and a noise did keepe,
With crowing still, when others faine would sleepe.
In his defence, heereto repli'de the Cock,
My fault of lust, is for my maisters gaine,
I am for crowing, call'd the Plowmans clock,
Whome I awake betime, to daily paine:
No doubt (quoth Pusse,) of reasons thou hast store,
But I am fasting, and can heare no more.
My fault of lust, is for my maisters gaine,
I am for crowing, call'd the Plowmans clock,
Whome I awake betime, to daily paine:
No doubt (quoth Pusse,) of reasons thou hast store,
But I am fasting, and can heare no more.
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