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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Humilibus dat gratiam.
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Humilibus dat gratiam.
The Mountaines huge, that seeme to check the sky,
And all the world, with greatnes overpeere,
With Heath, or Mosse, for most part barren lie:
When valleis low, doth kindly Phœbus cheere,
And with his heate, in hedge and groue begets,
The virgin-Primrose, or sweete Violets.
And all the world, with greatnes overpeere,
With Heath, or Mosse, for most part barren lie:
When valleis low, doth kindly Phœbus cheere,
And with his heate, in hedge and groue begets,
The virgin-Primrose, or sweete Violets.
So God, oft times denies vnto the greate,
The giftes of Nature, or his heavenly grace,
And those that high, in Honor's chaire are set,
Doe feele their wantes, when men of meaner place,
Although they lack, the others golden spring,
Perhaps are blest, aboue the richest King,
The giftes of Nature, or his heavenly grace,
And those that high, in Honor's chaire are set,
Doe feele their wantes, when men of meaner place,
Although they lack, the others golden spring,
Perhaps are blest, aboue the richest King,
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