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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Scripta non temere edenda.
By worke of wit, who thirsteth after Fame:
And by the Muse, wouldst liue a longer day,
What ere thou writ'st, see carefully the same,
Thou oft peruse, and after pause, and stay;
Mend what's amisse, with ARGVS hundred eies,
I meane advice, and Iudgment of the wise.
And by the Muse, wouldst liue a longer day,
What ere thou writ'st, see carefully the same,
Thou oft peruse, and after pause, and stay;
Mend what's amisse, with ARGVS hundred eies,
I meane advice, and Iudgment of the wise.
For as in Children, easily we behold,
Some neere resemblance of the mouth, or eie:
Of Parents likenes: so our workes vnfold,
Our mindes true Image, to posteritie.
Beside, lew'd lines, our loues, and leasinges vaine
Doe die: when wise wordes ever doe remaine.
Some neere resemblance of the mouth, or eie:
Of Parents likenes: so our workes vnfold,
Our mindes true Image, to posteritie.
Beside, lew'd lines, our loues, and leasinges vaine
Doe die: when wise wordes ever doe remaine.
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