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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Tyranni morbus suspicio.
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Tyranni morbus suspicio.
When valiant Richmond, gaue the overthrow
T'vsurping Richard, at that fatall feild
Of Bosworth, as our Histories doe show,
This Embleme he devised for his sheild,
(For when the battaile, wholly was his owne,
He found his crowne, within a Hawthorne throwne.)
T'vsurping Richard, at that fatall feild
Of Bosworth, as our Histories doe show,
This Embleme he devised for his sheild,
(For when the battaile, wholly was his owne,
He found his crowne, within a Hawthorne throwne.)
Whereat he sigh'd they say, and vttered this,
A Kingdome easeth not, the guiltie mind,
Nor Crowne contents, where inward horror is,
Withall it showes, how I am like to find,
With Honor, and this dignitie I beare,
My part of greife, and thornes of heavie care.
A Kingdome easeth not, the guiltie mind,
Nor Crowne contents, where inward horror is,
Withall it showes, how I am like to find,
With Honor, and this dignitie I beare,
My part of greife, and thornes of heavie care.
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