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The Glory of Divine Efficiency Miraculous.
Let's view Efficiency, and eye her shineWherewith she doth emplaster ore this time
When Charles after his dubbing did advance
Unto Spoleto. Italy did dance
Upon a dismall Earthquake's tottering back
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Shooke down both Roofe and Beams of Pauls Church gay
This was at two aclock in th'night fore May.
Soon after, certain places by the Rhine
Did take this dance. And France attends this Rhime.
And Plague persues the same. Also this Strain
At Charles his Palace toots at Aquisgrane
And bordering places where this Earthquake wheeles.
And Pestilence did follow at its heels[.]
Locusts from Africk jump to Italy
And all things there devour egregeously.
The year that shut up Charles his peepholes, shown
An Earthquake, Prodigies to Ears made known.
And to mens Eyes, a Comet that did Change
Its Shape and like an headless man did range.
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