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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Sapientiam, Avaritia, et Dolus, decipiunt.
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Sapientiam, Avaritia, et Dolus, decipiunt.
Ah pitie PALLAS, who hath thee enwrapt?
And in a snare, thus brought thee to distresse:
The wisest now I see may be entrapt,
And Vertue stoope to Fortunes ficklenesse:
Nor Scholler-ship, or wit, at all times can
From sad disaster, keepe a mortall man.
And in a snare, thus brought thee to distresse:
The wisest now I see may be entrapt,
And Vertue stoope to Fortunes ficklenesse:
Nor Scholler-ship, or wit, at all times can
From sad disaster, keepe a mortall man.
The loue of Money, and Dissimulation,
Hold thee MINERVA tangled in their snare:
For now the world, is growne to such a fashion,
That those the wisest, that the richest are,
And such by whome the simpler should be taught,
Are in the net, like PALLAS soonest caught.
Hold thee MINERVA tangled in their snare:
For now the world, is growne to such a fashion,
That those the wisest, that the richest are,
And such by whome the simpler should be taught,
Are in the net, like PALLAS soonest caught.
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