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(32) Peace.
Pluto, the god of worldlie wealth,
which vnder yearth doth houlde
his goulden limittes and his bounds,
with manie hills of goulde,
there governs at his cursed will,
and goulden guiftes greate store,
with heaped Riches doth possesse
a thowsand fould and more.
vnder whose feete, Bellona lies,
still thirstinge after warrs,
a furious spoyler, and the cause
of all tumultuous Iarrs.
But fayre sweet Peace doth lead Pluto,
and draweth him with right hand,
And in lefte hand, Amalthea,
the fruitfull horne, doth stande;
ffor all thinges doe then flowe at large;
Bacchus and Ceres raigne;
Then Halcyon daies, then quiet rest,
their triumphes doth retaine.
Then blodie Mars, cast to the grounde,
to peace doth yeald his sword;
but perfect peace descends from him
Which was his fathers worde,
And first appeased the Angrie god
when hee, the loste mankinde
with peacefull concord, to our good,
for evermore did bynde.
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