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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The Common-wealth, whose Base is firmely laid
On evenest ground, of Iustice and the right,
By time or chaunge, in vaine we see assaide,
But where affection overswaies with might:
Confusion there, all vnto havock bringes,
And vndermines, the thrones of mightiest Kinges.
On evenest ground, of Iustice and the right,
By time or chaunge, in vaine we see assaide,
But where affection overswaies with might:
Confusion there, all vnto havock bringes,
And vndermines, the thrones of mightiest Kinges.
Our English STEPHEN, did take vnto him this
Faire falling Plume, resembling best of all,
The new establsh't goverment of his,
Whereas each feather keepes his ranck and fall:
So should that state, (let Fortune doe her worst,)
As faire, and firme, as ever at the first.
Faire falling Plume, resembling best of all,
The new establsh't goverment of his,
Whereas each feather keepes his ranck and fall:
So should that state, (let Fortune doe her worst,)
As faire, and firme, as ever at the first.
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