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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Vndique flamma.
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Vndique flamma.
Who ever dost a Roiall Scepter sway,
Or sit'st at sterne of publique gouerment,
So beare thy selfe, that all Inferiors may,
Behold thee as, a bright example sent;
From God aboue, and clearest light to show,
The virtuous pathes, wherein they ought to goe.
Or sit'st at sterne of publique gouerment,
So beare thy selfe, that all Inferiors may,
Behold thee as, a bright example sent;
From God aboue, and clearest light to show,
The virtuous pathes, wherein they ought to goe.
For people, are like busie Apes inclin'd,
To imitate the Soveraignes manners still,
And to his Actions, frame their varieng mind:
So that he standes, as Torch vpon a hill,
In open view, and ever shining bright,
In good or ill, to thousandes giuing light.
To imitate the Soveraignes manners still,
And to his Actions, frame their varieng mind:
So that he standes, as Torch vpon a hill,
In open view, and ever shining bright,
In good or ill, to thousandes giuing light.
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