The Colonies of Bartas VVith the Commentarie of S. G. S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the Translatour [i.e. William Lisle] |
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[Now Iaphet spred along from th'Ellesponticke waters] |
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[Now Iaphet spred along from th'Ellesponticke waters]
Now Iaphet spred along from th'Ellesponticke waters,Th'Euxine and Tanais, vnto the mount Gibratars
Renoumed double top, and that sunne-setting Maine
Which with his ebbe and flow plaies on the shore of Spaine,
And from that other sea, vpon whose frozen allies
Glide swiftly-teemed Carres in stead of winged Gallies.
Vnto the sea Tyrrhene, Ligusticke, Prouencall,
Moreas waters and the learned Atticall:
Against the goodly coast of Afa the lesse,
The second Paradise, the worlds cheife happines
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Vnto the springs of Rha, and pleasant bankes of Tane
As those braue men of war that France haue ouerspred,
Of Gomers fruitfull seed themselues professe are bred:
So are the Germaneseie, once called Gomerites:
Of Tuball Spaniards came, of Mosoch Muscouites,
Of Madas sprong the Medes, of Magog Scythians,
Of Iauan roseth: Greekes, of Thyras Thracians.
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