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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Minimus in summo.
If that thy Fortunes haue their heigth attain'd,
And bid thee not on greatnes BASE to feare,
Let not with that preferment thou hast gain'd,
Vnwonted Pride, or Insolence appeare:
But how much higher thou art plac'd in sight,
So much the lesse affect thy state and might.
And bid thee not on greatnes BASE to feare,
Let not with that preferment thou hast gain'd,
Vnwonted Pride, or Insolence appeare:
But how much higher thou art plac'd in sight,
So much the lesse affect thy state and might.
For Honors, know, but lend Ambition winge,
And like false mirrours, make vs seeme too greate,
Vpborne by vulgar breath, (the vainest thing,)
Till all be melted by the Soveraigne heate:
That left abandon'd, in a trustlesse aire,
We drowne within an Ocean of dispaire.
And like false mirrours, make vs seeme too greate,
Vpborne by vulgar breath, (the vainest thing,)
Till all be melted by the Soveraigne heate:
That left abandon'd, in a trustlesse aire,
We drowne within an Ocean of dispaire.
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