Fovre bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke, II. Babylon, III. The Colonnyes, IIII. The Columues or Pyllars: In French and English, for the Instrvction and Pleasvre of Svch as Delight in Both Langvages. By William Lisle ... Together with a large Commentary by S. G. S |
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His tongue-strings ouerwet doe cause him lisp and stut;
No word flies through his teeth, but witlesse, broke and cut:
His stomack ouer-laid with hot fume hurts his braine,
And rawly belcheth wind; his feet stumble on the plaine,
So heauy was his head; the place is turned round;
No longer can he stand, but sleepe him layes aground
Amid his open tent; there he now like a swine
His snoaring carren rowles embrewd with cast-vp-wine:
And albeside himselfe, not knowing what he did,
He naked layes the parts, that dying Cæsar hid.
No word flies through his teeth, but witlesse, broke and cut:
His stomack ouer-laid with hot fume hurts his braine,
And rawly belcheth wind; his feet stumble on the plaine,
So heauy was his head; the place is turned round;
No longer can he stand, but sleepe him layes aground
Amid his open tent; there he now like a swine
His snoaring carren rowles embrewd with cast-vp-wine:
And albeside himselfe, not knowing what he did,
He naked layes the parts, that dying Cæsar hid.
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