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.

Phlegma.

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HEERE Phlegme sits coughing on a Marble seate, As Citie-vsurers before their dore: Of Bodie grosse, not through excesse of meate, But of a Dropsie, he had got of yore: His slothfull hand, in's bosome still he keepes, Drinkes, spits, or nodding, in the Chimney sleepes.

Beneath his feete, there doth a Tortoise crall, For slowest pace, Sloth's Hieroglyphick here, For Phlegmatique, hates Labour most of all, As by his course araiment, may appeare: Nor is he better furnished I find, With Science, or the virtues of the mind.