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GONDIBERT,
25.
Thy Brother lost his life attempting mine;
Which cannot for Lord Arnold's loss suffice:
I must revenge (unlucky Paradine)
The blood his death will draw from Laura's Eyes.
Thy Brother lost his life attempting mine;
Which cannot for Lord Arnold's loss suffice:
I must revenge (unlucky Paradine)
The blood his death will draw from Laura's Eyes.
26.
We Rivals were in Laura, but though she
My griefs derided, his with sighs approv'd;
Yet I (in Loves exact integritie)
Must take thy life for killing him She lov'd.
We Rivals were in Laura, but though she
My griefs derided, his with sighs approv'd;
Yet I (in Loves exact integritie)
Must take thy life for killing him She lov'd.
27.
These quick alike, and artfully as fierce,
At one sad instant give and take that wound,
Which does through both their vital Closets pierce;
Where Life's small Lord doth warmly sit enthron'd.
These quick alike, and artfully as fierce,
At one sad instant give and take that wound,
Which does through both their vital Closets pierce;
Where Life's small Lord doth warmly sit enthron'd.
28.
And then they fell, and now near upper Heaven,
Heav'ns better part of them is hov'ring still,
To watch what end is to their Princes given,
And to brave Hubert, and to Hurgonil.
And then they fell, and now near upper Heaven,
Heav'ns better part of them is hov'ring still,
To watch what end is to their Princes given,
And to brave Hubert, and to Hurgonil.
29.
In progress thus to their eternal home,
Some method is observ'd by Destinie,
Which at their Princes setting out did doom,
These as their leading Harbingers to die.
In progress thus to their eternal home,
Some method is observ'd by Destinie,
Which at their Princes setting out did doom,
These as their leading Harbingers to die.
30.
And fatal Hubert we must next attend,
Whom Hurgonil had brought to such distress,
That though Life's stock he did not fully spend,
His glory that maintain'd it is grown less.
And fatal Hubert we must next attend,
Whom Hurgonil had brought to such distress,
That though Life's stock he did not fully spend,
His glory that maintain'd it is grown less.
31.
Long had they strove, who first should be destroy'd;
And wounds (the Marks of Manhood) gave and took,
Which though like honour'd Age, we would avoid,
Yet make us when possess'd, for rev'rence look.
Long had they strove, who first should be destroy'd;
And wounds (the Marks of Manhood) gave and took,
Which though like honour'd Age, we would avoid,
Yet make us when possess'd, for rev'rence look.
O Ho-
