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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A young man-blind, black, naked here is seene,
Ore Mountaine steepe, and Thornie Rock to passe,
Whose heart a Serpent gnawes with furie teene,
Another's wound about his wast; alas,
Since ADAM'S fall, such our estate hath bin,
The liuely picture of our guilt and sinne.
Ore Mountaine steepe, and Thornie Rock to passe,
Whose heart a Serpent gnawes with furie teene,
Another's wound about his wast; alas,
Since ADAM'S fall, such our estate hath bin,
The liuely picture of our guilt and sinne.
His age denotes youthes follies and amisse,
His blindnes shewes, our want of wisedomes sight;
Sinnes deadly waies, those dang'rous stepps of his,
His nakednes, of grace depriued quite:
Hell's power the Serpent, which his loines doth girt,
A Conscience bad, the other eates his heart.
His blindnes shewes, our want of wisedomes sight;
Sinnes deadly waies, those dang'rous stepps of his,
His nakednes, of grace depriued quite:
Hell's power the Serpent, which his loines doth girt,
A Conscience bad, the other eates his heart.
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