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GONDIBERT,
76.
Study the mighty Oswald vainly gone!
Fierce Paradine, and Dargonet the stout!
Whose Thrids by patient Parcae slowly spun,
Ambition's haste has rashly ravell'd out.
Study the mighty Oswald vainly gone!
Fierce Paradine, and Dargonet the stout!
Whose Thrids by patient Parcae slowly spun,
Ambition's haste has rashly ravell'd out.
77.
But Hubert's grief no precept could reform:
For great grief counsell'd, does to anger grow;
And he provided now a future Storm,
Which did with black revenge orecast his Brow.
But Hubert's grief no precept could reform:
For great grief counsell'd, does to anger grow;
And he provided now a future Storm,
Which did with black revenge orecast his Brow.
78.
Borgio and he from this dire Region haste;
Shame makes them sightless to themselves and dumb;
Their thoughts flie swift as Time from what is past;
And would like him demolish all to come.
Borgio and he from this dire Region haste;
Shame makes them sightless to themselves and dumb;
Their thoughts flie swift as Time from what is past;
And would like him demolish all to come.
79.
Strait they interre th'inferiour of their slain;
Their nobler Tragick load their grief attends
Tow'rds Brescia, where the Camp they hope to gain,
Then force the Court by faction of their Friends.
Strait they interre th'inferiour of their slain;
Their nobler Tragick load their grief attends
Tow'rds Brescia, where the Camp they hope to gain,
Then force the Court by faction of their Friends.
80.
To Bergamo the gentle Duke does turn
With his surviving Lovers, who in kind
Remembrance every step look back, and mourn
Their fellow Lovers Death has staid behind.
To Bergamo the gentle Duke does turn
With his surviving Lovers, who in kind
Remembrance every step look back, and mourn
Their fellow Lovers Death has staid behind.
81.
Some lost their quiet Rivals, some their dear
Love's Brother, who their hopes with help approv'd;
Some such joy'd Friends, as even tomorrow were
To take from Hymen those they dearest lov'd.
Some lost their quiet Rivals, some their dear
Love's Brother, who their hopes with help approv'd;
Some such joy'd Friends, as even tomorrow were
To take from Hymen those they dearest lov'd.
82.
But now to Gondibert they forward look,
Whose wounds, ere he could waste three league of way,
So waste him, that his speech him quite forsook,
And Nature calls for Art to make Life stay.
But now to Gondibert they forward look,
Whose wounds, ere he could waste three league of way,
So waste him, that his speech him quite forsook,
And Nature calls for Art to make Life stay.
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