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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Regum Maiestatem non imminuendam.
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Regum Maiestatem non imminuendam.
The auntient Romans by their Temples vs'd,
To paint a serpent, or such hideous thing:
That holy places, might not be abus'd
By children, whom they told, that these would sting:
And made beleue they liu'd, to that intent,
To Sacred things they should be reverent.
To paint a serpent, or such hideous thing:
That holy places, might not be abus'd
By children, whom they told, that these would sting:
And made beleue they liu'd, to that intent,
To Sacred things they should be reverent.
Vile Traytor, of some Hyrcane Tiger bred,
Such Serpents still, thy Soveraignes crowne do guard:
But think not as the other, these are dead,
Like child or foole: but that they are prepar'd,
With mortal stings, to be reueng'd on them,
That shall abuse, tha'nointed Diadem.
Such Serpents still, thy Soveraignes crowne do guard:
But think not as the other, these are dead,
Like child or foole: but that they are prepar'd,
With mortal stings, to be reueng'd on them,
That shall abuse, tha'nointed Diadem.
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