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.

Vlterius durabit.

[illustration]

THE Monuments that mightie Monarches reare, COLOSSO'S statües, and Pyramids high, In tract of time, doe moulder downe and weare, Ne leaue they any little memorie, The Passenger may warned be to say, They had their being here, another day.

* 1.1But wise wordes taught, in numbers sweete to runne, Preserued by the liuing Muse for aie, Shall still abide, when date of these is done, Nor ever shall by Time be worne away: Time, Tyrants, Envie, World assay thy worst, Ere HOMER die, thou shalt be „ 1.2 fired first.

Ergo cum silices, cum dens patiatur aratri Depereant aevo, carmina morte carent. * 1.3Cedant carminibus Reges, Regumque Triumphi, Cedat et auriferi ripa beata Tagi.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Scindētur vestes, geminae frangen∣tur et aurum, Carmina quem tribuent fama perennis erit: Ovi••: Amor: E∣leg: 10.
• „ 1.2

  Exitio terras cum dabit vna dies. Ovi••:
• * 1.3

  Ovid: E••••g•• vlt••••