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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Melancholia.
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Melancholia.
Heere
Melancholly musing in his fits,
Pale visag'd, of complexion cold and drie,
All solitarie, at his studie sits,
Within a wood, devoid of companie:
Saue Madge the Owle, and melancholly Pusse,
Light-loathing Creatures, hatefull, ominous.
Pale visag'd, of complexion cold and drie,
All solitarie, at his studie sits,
Within a wood, devoid of companie:
Saue Madge the Owle, and melancholly Pusse,
Light-loathing Creatures, hatefull, ominous.
His mouth, in signe of silence, vp is bound,
For Melancholly loues not many wordes:
One foote on Cube is fixt vpon the ground,
The which him plodding Constancie affordes:
A sealed Purse he beares, to shew no vice,
So proper is to him, as Avarice.
For Melancholly loues not many wordes:
One foote on Cube is fixt vpon the ground,
The which him plodding Constancie affordes:
A sealed Purse he beares, to shew no vice,
So proper is to him, as Avarice.
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