an Heroick Poem.
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39.
A sad resolve, which is a wise-mans vow,
From Cities noise, and Courts unpity'd care
Did so divorce me, it would scarce allow
I ere should take one League of distant air.
A sad resolve, which is a wise-mans vow,
From Cities noise, and Courts unpity'd care
Did so divorce me, it would scarce allow
I ere should take one League of distant air.
40.
But that Alarms from each adjacent part
Which borders my abode, disturb'd my rest,
With dreadfull news that gracious Gondibert
By Oswald's Faction was in fight opprest.
But that Alarms from each adjacent part
Which borders my abode, disturb'd my rest,
With dreadfull news that gracious Gondibert
By Oswald's Faction was in fight opprest.
41.
Then it had given your wonder cause to last,
To see the vex'd mistakes this summons wrought
In all my Maim'd Domesticks by their haste,
For some tie on the Limbs which others sought.
Then it had given your wonder cause to last,
To see the vex'd mistakes this summons wrought
In all my Maim'd Domesticks by their haste,
For some tie on the Limbs which others sought.
42.
Just such mistakes audacious Ethnicks say
Will happen where the Righteous busie are,
Through glad and earnest haste in the last day;
Whilst others slowly to their doom prepare.
Just such mistakes audacious Ethnicks say
Will happen where the Righteous busie are,
Through glad and earnest haste in the last day;
Whilst others slowly to their doom prepare.
43.
And this had Anger, anger noise had bred,
And Noise, the Enemy of usefull Thought,
Had them to more mistakes than blindness led,
But that our awfull Camps had silence taught.
And this had Anger, anger noise had bred,
And Noise, the Enemy of usefull Thought,
Had them to more mistakes than blindness led,
But that our awfull Camps had silence taught.
44.
Silence did Mem'ry, Mem'ry order make,
Order to each did his mist wood restore;
For some, who once were stedfast Foot, mistake,
And snatch those limbs which onely Horse-men wore.
Silence did Mem'ry, Mem'ry order make,
Order to each did his mist wood restore;
For some, who once were stedfast Foot, mistake,
And snatch those limbs which onely Horse-men wore.
45.
Like swift Pursuers on Arabian Horse,
These with their needfull Instruments of hold
(Which give their strange adapted weapons force)
I mounted strait Five Hundred fully told.
Like swift Pursuers on Arabian Horse,
These with their needfull Instruments of hold
(Which give their strange adapted weapons force)
I mounted strait Five Hundred fully told.
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