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A09202	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.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1612 (1612)	STC 19511; ESTC S114357	68,103	232

MINERVA 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. LONDON Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa Dight ICH DIEN .i. Germanicé Servio Epigramma Authoris Se dicit Servum modo patre supersti●e Princeps Ephes. 4. 1. Primus at Imperio Servus b ICH DIEN Anagramma HIC IN DE regit TO THE RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTIE HENRIE ELDEST SONNE OF our Soveraigne Lord the KING Prince of Wales DVKE of CORNWALL and ROTHSAY and Knight of the most noble order of the GARTER MOST EXELLENT PRINCE Hauing by more then ordinarie signes tasted h●eretofore of your gratious favour and evidently knowen your Princely and Generous inclination to all good Learning and excellencie I am emboldened once againe to offer vp at the Altar of your gratious acceptance these mine Emblemes a weake I confesse and a worthlesse Sacrifice though an assured pledge of that Zeale and Duetie I shall for ever most Religiouslie owe vnto your Highnes shewing herein rather a will to desire then worth to deserue so peerelesse a patronage Howsoever the world shall esteeme them in regard of their rude and homely attire for the most part they are Roially discended and repaire into your owne bosome farre from the reach of Envie for their protection For in truth they are of right your owne and no other then the substance of those Divine Instructions his Maiestie your Royall Father praescribed vnto you your guide as that golden branch to AENEAS AEneid● 6. to a vertuous true happy life It is now two yeares since I presēted vnto your Highnes some of them then done by me into Latine verse with their pictures drawen and limned by mine owne hand in their liuely coulours wherein as neere as I could I obserued the Method of his Maiesties BASILICON DORON but by reason of the great number I had since that newly invented with some others collected tieng my inven●●on to ●o one Subiect as before I am here constrained aswell of Necessitie as for varietie sake to intermixe as it were promiscuè one with the other in one entire volume the rather because of their affinitie end which is one and the selfe same that is the fashioning of a vertuous minde I dare not discourse at large vnto your Highnes of the manifold Vse Nature Libertie and ever esteemed exellencie of this kind of Poesie it being the rarest and of all others the most ingenious and wherein the greatest Princes of the world many times haue most happily exercised their Invention because I doubt not but your Highnes already knoweth whatsoever I might speak herein Onely what I haue done I most humbly offer vp the same vnto your gratious view and protection Desiring of GOD to beautifie and enrich your most hopefull Heroique minde with the divinest giftes of his grace and knowledge heartily wishing there were any thing in me worthy of the least favour and respect of so excellent a Prince To your Highnes The most sincerely and affectionately devoted in all dutie and service HENRY PEACHAM To the Reader I haue heere kind Reader sent abroad vnto thy view this volume of Emblemes whether for greatnes of the chardge or that the Invention is not ordinarie a Subiect very rare For except the collections of Master Whitney and the translations of some one or two else beside I know not an Englishman in our age that hath published any worke of this kind they being I doubt not as ingenious and happy in their invention as the best French or Italian of them all Hence perhaps they terme vs Tramontani Sempii Simple and of dull conceipt when the fault is neither in the Climate nor as they would haue it in the constitution of our bodies but truely in the cold frozen respect of Learning and artes generally amongst vs comming far shorte of them in the iust valewing of well deseruing qualities To begin at the foote of their Alpes and so discend by Germanie which Bodine truly termeth officinam hominum a shoppe of absolute men for all Artes how she hath excelled in this as in all other rare Invention witnesse the many volumes she hath sent vs over of this Subiect With what excellent Bodies and Motto's haue the Netherlandes especially Holland and Zealand vpon sundry occasions as the recoverie of their Libertie the overthrow in eighty eight and the like commended their Invention to the world as we finde in Meteranus and others I should seeme partiall if I should lay to your view the many and almost vnimitable Impresa's of our owne Countrie as those of Edward the black Prince Henry the fourth Henry the seuenth Henry the eight Sir Thomas Moore the Lord Cromwell of later times those done by Sir Phillip Sydney and others Nor were it needefull since their Memory is fresh and many of their sheildes yet scarce drie in the world Who hath ever seene more wittie proper significant devises then those of Scotland to omit more auntient times as that of King Iames the third devising for himselfe to expresse the care he had of his country and People a Hen sitting over her Chickens with the word Non dormit qui custodit as also of Iames the fowrth taking to himselfe a bifront or double face plac't vpon the top of a Columne the heades crowned with Laurell the word Vtrumque meaning as it is thought he would constantly and advisedly like Ianus obserue the proceedings aswell of the French as the English holding them both at that time in Ielousie Many and very excellent haue I seene of his Maiesties owne Invention who hath taken herein in his yonger years great delight and pleasure by which thou maiest see that we are not so dull as they would imagine vs nor our Soile so barren as that we neede to borrow from their Sunne-burnt braines our best Invention Whereas I haue heere dedicated many Emblemes to sundry and great Personages yea some to Forraigne Princes I haue heerein but imitated the best approued Authours in this kind as Alciat Sambucus Iunius Reusnerus and others they being such as either in regard of their transcendent dignitie and vertues deserue of all to be honoured or others whome for their excellent parts and qualities I haue ever loued and esteemed or lastly some of my private friendes to whome I haue in particular beene most beholden some way or other Wherein I trust thou wilt not condemne me since I haue no other meane then by word to shew a thankfull minde towards them It is not my intent here which I might well doe to diseourse at large of the Nature and Libertie of Embleme wherein it differeth from the Impresa because heerein I haue beene alreadie prevented by Paulns Iovius Sambucus Mr. Sam. Daniell others The true vse heereof from time to time onely hath beene Vtile dulci miscere to feede at once

every blast is beaten to the ground Huic ne credere tutissimum SWEETE Bird who taught thee here to build thy nest In greater saf'tie then MEDEA's shrine Did Hap or that thou knew'sta Crowne the best From iniurie to shelter thee and thine How much I did thy happines envie When first I saw thee singing hither flie Your glories Type even so ye sacred Kinges In highest place the weaker one to sheild Thus vnder that sweete shadow of your winges Best loues the Artes and Innocence to build And thus my Muse that never saf'tie knew With weary wing great HENRIE flies to you To the Honorable Sir Thomas Ridgewaie Knight and Baronet Treasurer at warres in Ireland and one of his Maiesties Privie Counsell there c. Thomas Ridgewaie A●agramma Mihi gravato Deus THE Camell strong with burthen great opprest Is forc'd to yeeld vnto his loade at last And while he toiles himselfe enioies the least Of all the wealth that on his back is cast For why he must the same to those impart Whose due it is by Fortune or desert So honor'd Sir you as your Camell beare A Treasures charge that pulls you on your knee And though that thousandes aske it here and there To those that ought and best deseruing be You only giue their wages and their due The while the care and perill lies on you Melancholia HEERE Melancholly musing in his fits Pale visag'd of complexion cold and drie All solitarie at his studie sits Within a wood devoid of companie Saue Madge the Owle and melancholly Pusse Light-loathing Creatures hatefull ominous His mouth in signe of silence vp is bound For Melancholly loues not many wordes One foote on Cube is fixt vpon the ground The which him plodding Constancie affordes A sealed Purse he beares to shew no vice So proper is to him as Avarice Sanguis THE Aierie Sanguine in whose youthfull cheeke The Pestane Rose and Lilly doe contend By nature is benigne and gentlie meeke To Musick and all merriment a frend As seemeth by his flowers and girlondes gay Wherewith he dightes him all the merry May. And by him browzing of the climbing vine The lustfull Goate is seene which may import His pronenes both to women and to wine Bold bounteous frend vnto the learned sort For studies fit best louing and belou'd Faire-spoken bashfull seld in anger moou'd Cholera NEXT Choller standes resembling most the fire Of swarthie yeallow and a meager face With Sword a late vnsheathed in his Ire Neere whome there lies within a little space A sterne ei'de Lion and by him a sheild Charg'd with a slame vpon a crimson feild We paint him young to shew that passions raigne The most in heedles and vnstaied youth That Lion showes he seldome can refraine From cruell deede devoide of gentle ruth Or hath perhaps this beast to him assign'd As bearing most the braue and bounteous mind Phlegma 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 Ad Iesum Christum opt Max 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou art that sheepe An●gramma G Camdeni aut inc●iti cuiuspiam THE sillie Lambe on Altar lieth bound Prepared readie for the Sacrifice Who willingly awaites his mortall wound Without resistance or helpe calling cries To mooue the tender hearted to relent Or heauens to heare a dieng Innocent Thou art deere Lord this Lambe who for our guilt Esai 53.7 Forsook'st the Throne of highest Maiestie Actes 8. 32. And gau'st thy blood for sinners to be spilt Frend to thy foes high in humilitie And is this creature innocent and dumbe Till Lion-like thou shalt to Iudgment come Redemptor noster homo nascendo agnus moriendo Leo resurgendo et ad coelos ascendendo aquila facta est Nec amicis nec cognatis fidendum THE Partrich building in the ripened wheate Did charge her young while she abroade did flie With tender care to search about for meate To marke the talke of those that passed by Ere long there came the owner of the corne Who said by frendes next day it should be shorne There is no daunger quoth the old one yet Be still a while I once abroade againe Then heard they he his kinsmen would intreate Without delay to fell that feild of graine Some feare there is quoth Damme but if he saies Hee 'le come himselfe then time to goe our waies Matrimonium WHO loueth best to liue in Hymens bandes And better likes the carefull married state May here behold how Matrimonie standes In woodden stocks repenting him too late The servile yoake his neck and shoulder weares And in his hand the fruitefull Quince he beares The stocks doe shew his want of libertie Not as he woont to wander where he list The yoke's an ensigne of servilitie The fruitefullnes the Quince within his fist Of wedlock tells which * Plutarch SOLON did present T' Athenian Brides the day to Church they went Sed frigida pulchra Ad Lesbiam LESBIA that dost th' Elysian Rose excell Or Cyprian Goddesse for a beauteous grace Forgiue me here that I so plainlie tell Dum licet iniusto subtrahe colla iug● Propert 2. 5. My loues long errors wandring in thy face Thy face that takes like that Daedalian maze All eies thereon that shall with wonder gaze Though fairest faire thou beest yet like the Snow Or shamefast Rose thou inwardly art cold Nor can the beames that gentle Loue doth throw Exhale the sweete thy bosome doth enfold As thou art faire so wert thou Lesbia kind My wronges had di ' de and none had knowne thy mind Ovid Epist 1● Sive latet Phoebus seu terris altior extet Tu mihi luce dolor tu mihi nocte venis Veritas A BEAVTEOVS maide in comly wise doth stand Who on the Sunnes bright globe doth cast her eie An opened booke she holdeth in her hand withall the Palme in signe of victorie Her right foote treadeth downe the world belowe Her name is TRVTH of old depainted so Her nakednes beseemes simplicitie The Sunne how she is greatest frend to light Her booke the strength she holds by Historia custo● illustrium virorum virtutis testis malorum sceleris benefica in omne humanum Genus Diodorus Siculus 1. Biblothec historie The Palme her triumphes over Tyrants spite The world she treads on how in heaven she dwels And here beneath all earthly thing excells Etiam hosti servanda Inter Augusti Numismata Vide historiam M Artilii Reguli in Cie officiis OF CONCORD