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ANNUS MIRABILIS.
27.
Fiercer than Canon, and than Rocks more hard,
The English undertake the unequal War:
Seven Ships alone, by which the Port is barr'd,
Besiege the Indies, and all Denmark dare.
Fiercer than Canon, and than Rocks more hard,
The English undertake the unequal War:
Seven Ships alone, by which the Port is barr'd,
Besiege the Indies, and all Denmark dare.
28.
These fight like Husbands, but like Lovers those:
These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy:
And to such height their frantick Passion grows,
That what both love, both hazard to destroy.
These fight like Husbands, but like Lovers those:
These fain would keep, and those more fain enjoy:
And to such height their frantick Passion grows,
That what both love, both hazard to destroy.
29.
Amidst whole heaps of Spices lights a Ball,
And now their Odours arm'd against them flie:
Some preciously by shatter'd Porc'lain fall,
And some by Aromatick Splinters die.
Amidst whole heaps of Spices lights a Ball,
And now their Odours arm'd against them flie:
Some preciously by shatter'd Porc'lain fall,
And some by Aromatick Splinters die.
30.
And though by tempests of the Prize bereft,
In Heaven's inclemency some ease we find:
Our Foes we vanquish'd by our valour left,
And only yielded to the Seas and Wind.
And though by tempests of the Prize bereft,
In Heaven's inclemency some ease we find:
Our Foes we vanquish'd by our valour left,
And only yielded to the Seas and Wind.
31. Nor
