Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Nature.

Nature in which diuinitie doth shine, Liuely presenting vnborne deitie: Is that same spirit of reason most diuine, Which causeth euery naturall worke to be. All things she doth preserue, and can refine Muddy pollutions from impietie. Philosophy can teach no art nor ground, Which Nature (elder borne) had not first found. I. Markham.

—Nature in mans heart her lawes doth pen, Prescribing truth to wit, and good to will, Which do accuse, or els excuse all men, For euery thought or practise good or ill. I. Dauies.

Nature aboue all things requireth this, That we our kind do labour to maintaine. S. Phil. Sidney.

Nature which headlong into life doth throng vs With our feete forward to our graue doth bring vs: What is lesse ours, then this our borrowed breath▪ We stumble into life, we go to death. Th. Bastard.

Inexplicable nature by the God of nature wroght, Makes things seeme miracles to some, to some not wonders thoght. And euery climates people both as they are men and liue, Do differ: if obseru'd, she not admir'd doth giue The workman rather thē the work extoll we, though in her Not curiously, and all things to his prouidence refer. W. Warner.

Nature hath powr'd inough in each mans lappe, Could each man learne to vse his priuate happe. Th. Storer.

— Markes descried in mens natiuitie, Are natures faults, not their owne infamie. ƲƲ. Shakespeare.

Nature is Learnings eyes, she natures thought, Vse wanting either, is imperfect made, They without vse, no better then a shade. I. Markham.

— Nature seemeth onely faire in chaunge. D. Lodge.

—Where nature failes in strength she addes in wit. W. W.

Nature giues bewtie, fortune wealth in vaine. Ed. Fairfax.

—The desire of nature is not vaine, She couets not impossibilities, Fond thoughts may fall into some Idle braine, But one assent of all is euer wise. I. Dauies.

Nature doth hate and shunne her contrarie. Idem.

—Nature teacheth euer Who loues preferment, needs must loue the giuer. Th. Storer.