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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Sic vtile dulci.
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Sic vtile dulci.
The Spartan virgines, ere they had composed;
Theire Girlonds, of the fairest flowers to sight:
The wholesom'st herbes, they heere withall inclosed,
And so their heades, full iollily they dight,
In memorie of that same leach they wright:
Who first brought simples, and their vse to light.
Theire Girlonds, of the fairest flowers to sight:
The wholesom'st herbes, they heere withall inclosed,
And so their heades, full iollily they dight,
In memorie of that same leach they wright:
Who first brought simples, and their vse to light.
So ye braue Lord, who like the heavenly Sphære,
Delight in motion, and aboute to roame:
Must learne to mixe in travaile farre and neere,
With pleasure profite, that returning home;
Your skill, and Iudgment, more may make you knowen;
Then your French suite, or locke so largly growen.
Delight in motion, and aboute to roame:
Must learne to mixe in travaile farre and neere,
With pleasure profite, that returning home;
Your skill, and Iudgment, more may make you knowen;
Then your French suite, or locke so largly growen.
For who's he, that's not ravisht with delight,
Farre Countries, Courtes, and Cities, straung to see;
To haue old Rome, presented to his sight:
Troy-walls, or Virgils sweete Parthenope.
Yet nothing worth, vnles ye herewith find,
The fruites of skill, and bettering of your mind.
Farre Countries, Courtes, and Cities, straung to see;
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Troy-walls, or Virgils sweete Parthenope.
Yet nothing worth, vnles ye herewith find,
The fruites of skill, and bettering of your mind.
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