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.

I••repetundos, et adulatores.

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OF Virgins face, with winges, and tallants strong, Vpon thy table, PHINEVS here behold, A monstrous Harpie, that hath praeied long, Vpon thy meates, while thou art blind, and old, And at all times, his appetite doth serue, While vnregarded, thou thy selfe dost sterue.

The Courtes of Kinges, are said to keepe a crew Of these still hungry for their private gaine: The first is he, that carries tales vntrue, The second, whome base bribing doth maintaine, The third and last, the Parasite I find, Who bites the worst, if Princes will be blind.

Est et apud Reges rudis, invida, rustica turba, Histrio, scurra, quibus virtus odiosa, Po••t••s Mille modis abigunt, vt quando cadavera corvi Invenere, fugant alias volucreique ferasque.

Notes

• Ovid: Metam: lib: 6.
• Hirudines aera∣rii. Cic: ad Atti∣cum 1.
• Nihil in penati∣bus eius sit vaena∣le, aut ambitioni pervium. Tacitus Annal: 13.
• Insidit dapibus volueris foedissima Phineu (Harpyiam vocitant) vngu•• rapace tuis: Crimina qui d••fert, repetundus, Gnato 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Vile genus fucos, quos alit Aula su••s.
• Basilic: ••or••••.
• B: Mantu••••: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 AEglog: