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A worthie Souldiour. 20.

A worthie Souldiour worthily is stylde,
Valovrs Genuine, and naturall Chylde.
Predestinate train'd vp, and borne to bee
Fit for the service of Necessitie.
And th'Ensigne to advance and carrie foorth,
Of Honour in the actiue Acts of Worth:
Hee dyes the Earth, in crimson with his Handes.
While hee the Violence of Wrong with-stands.
Hee ruines that which prowde Ambition reares,
And Tyrants Statutes into Tags hee teares.
Hee is a warie Watch man, and with Wit,
Advantage takes of Time, and vseth it
Into the Projects and Designes hee hath,
For executing of his lawfull Wrath:
While Cowards base make Flight their foule Refuge,
Hee makes his Blade his Arbiter and Iudge.
And with the Pike Objections hee impoungs,
When others bot retort them with their Tongues.
The dint of Death, altho before his Eyes,
Hee obviates, before Indignities.
Hee is a Lyon, awfull to Ambition,
And lyke a loving Lambe, vnto Submission.
Hee holdeth Hope, in hazards by the Hands,
And on the Head of Feare, triumphing stands.
Hee is the Peace, Preserver, and a Shield,
Vnto his king and Countrey in the Field.
Vnto disloyall Subjects hee is seene,
A Persecuter constant, and a keene.
Hee leades to Battell chearfull, as hee past
Vnto a Banquet, for to breake his Fast.
Hee knowes not Cowardice, nor fainting Feare,
On Resolution, hee his Rest doth Reare.
Search all his Forts, his strongest you shall finde,
To bee the Magnaminit' of his Minde.
Looke to his Life, and Thou shalt see't, a way,
Where Dangers obviate, and meete Him ay.
Yet with vndaunted Sprite hee forward fares,
And to no Fortune stoups, nor perill spares.
In midst of Martiall Broyls, and braue Alarms,
Hee with his Armes, there stoutly wins his Armes.
And by his Merits, in the Fields, and Plains,
In Court at home, his Honors hee obtains.