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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His altiora.
TO the honourable the Lord Wootton.
Yee Noblest sprightes, that with the bird of Iove,
Haue learnt to leaue, and loath, this baser earth,
And mount, by your inspired thoughtes aboue,
To heaven-ward, home-ward, whence you had your birth:
Take to you this, that Monarches may envie,
Your heartes content, and high fœlicitie.
Haue learnt to leaue, and loath, this baser earth,
And mount, by your inspired thoughtes aboue,
To heaven-ward, home-ward, whence you had your birth:
Take to you this, that Monarches may envie,
Your heartes content, and high fœlicitie.
You, you, that over-looke the cloudes of care,
And smile to see a multitude of Antes,
Vppon this circle, striuing here and there,
For Thine and Mine, yet pine amid their wantes;
While yee your selues, sit as spectators free,
From action, in their follies tragædie.
And smile to see a multitude of Antes,
Vppon this circle, striuing here and there,
For Thine and Mine, yet pine amid their wantes;
While yee your selues, sit as spectators free,
From action, in their follies tragædie.
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