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13.
Impatient Friends, stand that your strength may last,
Burn not in blaze rage that should warm you long!
I wish to Foes the weaknesses of haste,
To you such slowness as may keep you strong.
Impatient Friends, stand that your strength may last,
Burn not in blaze rage that should warm you long!
I wish to Foes the weaknesses of haste,
To you such slowness as may keep you strong.
14.
Not their scorns force should your fixt patience move;
Though scorn does more thā bonds free minds provoke:
Their flashy rage shall harmless lightning prove,
Which but fore-runs our Thunder's fatal stroke.
Not their scorns force should your fixt patience move;
Though scorn does more thā bonds free minds provoke:
Their flashy rage shall harmless lightning prove,
Which but fore-runs our Thunder's fatal stroke.
15.
For when their fury's spent, how weak they are
With the dull weight of antique Vandal Arms?
Their work but short, and little is in war,
Whom rage within, and Armour outward warms.
For when their fury's spent, how weak they are
With the dull weight of antique Vandal Arms?
Their work but short, and little is in war,
Whom rage within, and Armour outward warms.
16.
When you have us'd those arts your patience yields,
Try to avoid their couched Launces force
By dext'rous practise of Croation Fields,
Which turns to lazy Elephants their Horse.
When you have us'd those arts your patience yields,
Try to avoid their couched Launces force
By dext'rous practise of Croation Fields,
Which turns to lazy Elephants their Horse.
17.
When false retreat shall scatter you in flight,
As if you back to Elements were fled;
And no less faith can you again unite,
Than recollects from Elements the dead.
When false retreat shall scatter you in flight,
As if you back to Elements were fled;
And no less faith can you again unite,
Than recollects from Elements the dead.
18.
Make Chasers seem by your swift Rallies, slow;
Whilst they your swifter change of figures fear,
Like that in Battels, which t' amuse the Foe
My Grand-sire taught, as Wars Philosopher.
Make Chasers seem by your swift Rallies, slow;
Whilst they your swifter change of figures fear,
Like that in Battels, which t' amuse the Foe
My Grand-sire taught, as Wars Philosopher.
19.
Think now your Valour enters on the Stage,
Think Fame th'Eternal Chorus to declare
Your mighty minds to each succeeding age,
And that your Ladies the Spectatours are.
Think now your Valour enters on the Stage,
Think Fame th'Eternal Chorus to declare
Your mighty minds to each succeeding age,
And that your Ladies the Spectatours are.
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