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 |
 |
| I. |
| II. |
In Amicos falsos.
|
 | Minerva Britanna |  |
148
In Amicos falsos.
Two frendes there were that did their Iourney take,
And by the way, they made a vow to either,
What ere befell, they never would forsake,
But as sworne brethren, liue and die togeither:
Thus wandring thorough deserts, here and there,
By chance they met, a great and vgly Beare.
And by the way, they made a vow to either,
What ere befell, they never would forsake,
But as sworne brethren, liue and die togeither:
Thus wandring thorough deserts, here and there,
By chance they met, a great and vgly Beare.
At whome, amazed with a deadly feare,
One leaues his frend, and climbeth vp a tree:
The other, falles downe flat before the Beare,
And keepes his breath, that seeming dead to be,
The Beare forsooke him, (for his nature's such,
A breathles bodie never once to touch.)
One leaues his frend, and climbeth vp a tree:
The other, falles downe flat before the Beare,
And keepes his breath, that seeming dead to be,
The Beare forsooke him, (for his nature's such,
A breathles bodie never once to touch.)
The beast departing, and the daunger past,
The dead arose, and kept along his waie:
His fellow leaping from the tree at last,
Askt what the Beare, in's care did whispring say,
Quoth he, he bad me, evermore take heede,
Of such as thou, that failst in time of neede.
The dead arose, and kept along his waie:
His fellow leaping from the tree at last,
Askt what the Beare, in's care did whispring say,
Quoth he, he bad me, evermore take heede,
Of such as thou, that failst in time of neede.
| Minerva Britanna | |