The destrvction of Troy or the acts of Aeneas. Translated ovt of the second booke of the Aeneads of Virgill, that peerelesse Prince of Latine Poets. With the Latine verse on the one side, and the English Verse on the other, that the congruence of the translation with the Originall may the better appeare. As also a Centurie of Epigrams, and a Motto vpon the Creede, thereunto annexed. By Sr Thomas Wrothe |
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In Lexum. Ep. 39.
When Sword and Buckler was in estimation,Lexus sayth, then a man might haue some play;
But since this noble fight grew out of fashion,
A boy might kill a man in any fraye:
Lexus in honour of this ould defence,
Hacks many a Bucklerin an other sense.
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