 | A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford |  |
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Its Excrements vile Commodus with shouts
And Pertinax and Julian had born
The Diadem but scarcely had it worn,
The Imperiall Laurell by their fall did hap
To stick as feather in Severu's Cap.
Who when he'd five yeare wore it, did begin
The thi --- third Century to enter in,
Which now we Come to view how God did guild
It with his radients Beams, whose Spangles filld
It all in glorious blanches dawbd ore fresh
With Mercy, Patience bright, and Righteousness.
| A transcript of Edward Taylor's Metrical History of Christianity by Donald E. Stanford | |