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GONDIBERT,
46.
For Hermegild, too studiously foresaw
The Counts alliànce with the Duke's high blood,
Might from the Lombards such affection draw,
As could by Hubert never be withstood.
For Hermegild, too studiously foresaw
The Counts alliànce with the Duke's high blood,
Might from the Lombards such affection draw,
As could by Hubert never be withstood.
47.
And he in haste with Gartha does retire,
Where thus his breast he opens to prevent,
That Hymen's hallow'd Torch may not take fire,
When all these lesser lights of joy are spent.
And he in haste with Gartha does retire,
Where thus his breast he opens to prevent,
That Hymen's hallow'd Torch may not take fire,
When all these lesser lights of joy are spent.
48.
High Heav'n (from whose best Lights your beauty grows,
Born high, as highest Minds) preserve you still
From such, who then appears resistless Foes,
When they allyance joyn to Arms and Skill!
High Heav'n (from whose best Lights your beauty grows,
Born high, as highest Minds) preserve you still
From such, who then appears resistless Foes,
When they allyance joyn to Arms and Skill!
49.
Most by conjunction Planets harmfull are;
So Rivers joyning overflow the Land,
And Forces joyn'd make that destructive war,
Which else our common conduct may withstand.
Most by conjunction Planets harmfull are;
So Rivers joyning overflow the Land,
And Forces joyn'd make that destructive war,
Which else our common conduct may withstand.
50.
Their Knees to Hurgonil the People bow
And worship Orna in her Brothers right;
They must be sever'd, or like Palms will grow,
Which planted near, out-climb their native hight.
Their Knees to Hurgonil the People bow
And worship Orna in her Brothers right;
They must be sever'd, or like Palms will grow,
Which planted near, out-climb their native hight.
51.
As Winds, whose violence out-does all art,
Act all unseen: so we as secretly
These branches of that Cedar Gondibert
Must force, till his deep Root in rising die.
As Winds, whose violence out-does all art,
Act all unseen: so we as secretly
These branches of that Cedar Gondibert
Must force, till his deep Root in rising die.
52.
If we make noise whilst our deep workings last,
Such rumour through thick Towns unheeded flies,
As winds through woods, and we (our great work past)
Like winds will silence Tongues, and scape from Eyes.
If we make noise whilst our deep workings last,
Such rumour through thick Towns unheeded flies,
As winds through woods, and we (our great work past)
Like winds will silence Tongues, and scape from Eyes.
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