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.

Aula.

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WITH mightie men, who likes to spend his prime, And loues that life, which few account the best, In hope at length vnto his heigth to clime, By good desert, or thorough Fortune blest, May here behold the Modell of his blisse, And what his life, in summe and substance is.

A Ladie faire, is FAVOVR feign'd to be, Whose youthfull Cheeke, doth beare a louely blush,* 1.1 And as no niggard of her courtesie, She beares about a Holy-water brush: Where with her bountie round about she throwes, Faire promises, * 1.2 good wordes, and gallant showes.

Herewith a knot of guilded hookes she beares, With th' other hand, a paire of * 1.3 Stocks she opes, To shew her bondage: on her feete she weares Lead-shoes, as waiting long vpon her Hopes: And by her doth the fawning Spaniel lie, The Princes bane, the marke of * 1.4 Flatterie.

Stet quicun{que} volet potens Aulae culmine lubrico * 1.5Me dulcis saturet quies; Obscurus positus loco Leni perfruar otio.

Notes

• * 1.1

  C••sa••e Ripa•••• Ico∣nologia.
• * 1.2

  Byssina verba. Plutarch: in Ap••∣theg:
• * 1.3

  Aureae compe∣des. Al••iatus.
• * 1.4

  Cui omnia principum hones∣ta atque inhones∣ta laudare mos est. Tacitus A••∣••al: 3.
• * 1.5

  Se••eca in T••y••st••.