 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
In Asia.
Thomas Commanding all the Eastern landsDid bang the Wicked Saracens whose hands
Did Ravage there, then settled with them peace.
Job Patriarch of Antioch when Cease
Brave Leo did, did Emperour him Crown
Be Mich'els troop in Asia bangs knocks down.
Theophilus when Emperour doth rout
The Hagarens in Asian Countreyes Stout.
But after they him worst. But Manuel
Secar'd him, who of Emperour did Smell.
Which being Smelt he fled to Saracens.
And bravely ward against Curst Persians.
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |