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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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41. The Arms of Geneva.

Geneva Bears the Eagle; and the key:
The first proclaims, Emperial Majesty;
Unto the last, the Mitre, is right Heir,
Which is successor to St. Peter's Chair.
Of pure Geneva's Arms, what will become,
If Cæsar takes the Eagle; the Key, Rome?