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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TO THE THRICE VERTVOVS, AND FAIREST OF QVEENES, ANNE QVEENE OF GREAT BRITAINE. |
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TO THE THRICE VERTVOVS, AND FAIREST OF QVEENES, ANNE QVEENE OF GREAT BRITAINE.
An Oliue lo, with braunches faire dispred,
Whose top doth seeme to peirce the azure skie,
Much seeming to disdaine, with loftie head
The Cedar, and those Pines of Thessalie,
Fairest of Queenes, thou art thy selfe the Tree,
The fruite thy children, hopefull Princes three.
Whose top doth seeme to peirce the azure skie,
Much seeming to disdaine, with loftie head
The Cedar, and those Pines of Thessalie,
Fairest of Queenes, thou art thy selfe the Tree,
The fruite thy children, hopefull Princes three.
Which thus I ghesse, shall with their outstretcht armes,
In time o'respread Europa's continent,
To shield and shade, the innocent from harmes,
But overtop the proud and insolent:
Remaining, raigning, in their glories greene,
While man on earth, or Moone in heauen is seene.
In time o'respread Europa's continent,
To shield and shade, the innocent from harmes,
But overtop the proud and insolent:
Remaining, raigning, in their glories greene,
While man on earth, or Moone in heauen is seene.
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