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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41 Bellum cum vitijs.
One-Day I saw the World in furious FightWith lovely Vertue, his most loathed Foe:
It dared her, shee bravely did defie't:
It entred Lists (Shee first had entred though):
It traverses, it toils, it heaws, it hacks;
But all in vain, his blowes com never nigh-her:
For, the World's Weapons were but lythie Wax,
And Vertue's Shield is of celestiall Fier.
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