Minerua 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, Mr. of Artes.

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Title: Minerua 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, Mr. of Artes.
Author: Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?
Publication: London :: Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight,; [1612]
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Subject terms: Emblem books, English -- Early works to 1800.
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His servire. To the Right Honourable and my singuler good Lord HENRY HOVVARD Earle of Northhampton, Lord Privie Seale. &c. HENRICVS HOVVARDVS Comes Northamptoniensis.* 1.1 Pius, Castus huic mentis honor, merè honorandus.
[illustration]

A SNOW-WHITE Lion by an Altar sleepes,
(Whereon of Virtue are the Symboles plac't,)
Which day and night, full carefully he keepes,
Least that so sacred thing mought be defac't
By Time, or Envie, who not farre away,
Doe lurke to bring the same vnto decay.

Great Lord, by th' Altar Pietie is ment,
Thus, wherevpon is virtue seated sure:
Which thou protectest with deare cherishment;
And dost thy best, their safetie to procure
By howerly care, as doth this Lion white
Tipe of thy mildnes, and thy feared might,

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* 1.1

Anagramma Au∣thoris.

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Minerua 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, Mr. of Artes.

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description Page 20

His servire. To the Right Honourable and my singuler good Lord HENRY HOVVARD Earle of Northhampton, Lord Privie Seale. &c. HENRICVS HOVVARDVS Comes Northamptoniensis.* 1.1 Pius, Castus huic mentis honor, merè honorandus. [illustration]

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His servire. To the Right Honourable and my singuler good Lord HENRY HOVVARD Earle of Northhampton, Lord Privie Seale. &c. HENRICVS HOVVARDVS Comes Northamptoniensis.* 1.1 Pius, Castus huic mentis honor, merè honorandus.
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