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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Dÿ laboribus vendunt.
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Dÿ laboribus vendunt.
The slothfull man, that loues in idle seat,
And wanton pleasures, to dispend his daies:
The Scripture plaine denieth for to eate,
And lawes severe, doe punish many waies:
And never Heavens, with their bountie blesse,
The hand addicted vnto Idlenes.
And wanton pleasures, to dispend his daies:
The Scripture plaine denieth for to eate,
And lawes severe, doe punish many waies:
And never Heavens, with their bountie blesse,
The hand addicted vnto Idlenes.
On th'other side, when for our sweatie paine,
To sale they set vs, all the pretious thinges,
The Earth within her bosome, doth containe,
Gemmes, Herbes of virtue, Diadems of Kinges,
All sortes of Girlondes, and the Quill of Fame,
To keepe aliue, the honor of our name.
To sale they set vs, all the pretious thinges,
The Earth within her bosome, doth containe,
Gemmes, Herbes of virtue, Diadems of Kinges,
All sortes of Girlondes, and the Quill of Fame,
To keepe aliue, the honor of our name.
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