Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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Vpon the recouerie of Amiens.
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Vpon the recouerie of Amiens.
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I know not which may seem most admirable;To take or re-take such a Cities force:
But, yet I knowe which is most honourable,
To take by fraud, or to re-take by force.
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Each where they sing a thousand waiesThe glorie of this enterprise:
But yet of all their merry Layes,
The best is still in the Re-prise.
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Hernand was happy by this Enterprise,To take so soon our Amiens without blowe:
More happy yet, to die yer the Re-prise,
Else had he dy'd for shame to leaue it so.
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