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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Vmbra tantum.
The
Platane Tree, that by the bankes of PO,
With gentle shade refresheth man and beast,
Of other Trees, doth beare the goodliest show,
And yet of all, it is the barrenest:
But Nature though, this tree of fruite bereaues,
It makes amendes, in cooling with the leaues.
With gentle shade refresheth man and beast,
Of other Trees, doth beare the goodliest show,
And yet of all, it is the barrenest:
But Nature though, this tree of fruite bereaues,
It makes amendes, in cooling with the leaues.
This Platane Tree, are such as growe aloft,
Ore-dropping others, with their wealth or might,
And yet, they of themselues, are barren oft,
Wanting th' endowments, of the meaner wight:
Who many times, in vertue doth excell,
When these but haue, the shadow, or the shell.
Ore-dropping others, with their wealth or might,
And yet, they of themselues, are barren oft,
Wanting th' endowments, of the meaner wight:
Who many times, in vertue doth excell,
When these but haue, the shadow, or the shell.
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