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Epig. 39. On the Death of Strafford Deputie of Ireland .
That thou wert wise as Nestor, vallianterThen great Priamides, and stronger farre
Then big-bon'd Ajax, that thy skill did shine
Suparlatively in Warrs art, to thine;
That Cæsars vici was but slow, that all
Which makes an able Statesman, thou migh'st call
Thine, and thine onely, that thy mighty Soule
Dispans'd, extended unto either Pole:
Truth must acknowledge, that thy Royall Lord,
Durst to have morgag'd unto thee his Sword,
So great his confidence, during whose Reigne
Thou shon'st a Constellation, next his Waine,
And tis not yet decided, whether thou
Or he were more resplendent, on thy brow
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Saturne, and Hermes in thy Countenance.
(Second Sejanus) in thy fall we see
Nosce teipsum, was not known to thee.
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