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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Maior Hercule.
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Maior Hercule.
Two Columnes strong, heere little Loue doth beare,
Vpon his shoulders bare: though Lillie white,
As if another Hercules he were:
And would erect them, in a deepe despite,
Of that Colosse, or Pharos fiery bright
Th' Egyptian Piles, proude Mausolæus toombe
Spaines Pillars, or great Traians, yet in Roome.
Vpon his shoulders bare: though Lillie white,
As if another Hercules he were:
And would erect them, in a deepe despite,
Of that Colosse, or Pharos fiery bright
Th' Egyptian Piles, proude Mausolæus toombe
Spaines Pillars, or great Traians, yet in Roome.
Nor may you lesse imagine Cupids might:
Though (Ladies) he, but seeme a child in show,
Since hand to hand, himselfe in single fight,
Hath giuen the great'st Hero'es their overthrow:
Ne could the wisest man avoide his bow:
Whose Trophees, & braue triumphes, were they showne
Thy Sonne Alcmena, never had beene knowne.
Though (Ladies) he, but seeme a child in show,
Since hand to hand, himselfe in single fight,
Hath giuen the great'st Hero'es their overthrow:
Ne could the wisest man avoide his bow:
Whose Trophees, & braue triumphes, were they showne
Thy Sonne Alcmena, never had beene knowne.
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