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The more enforc'd, the lesse it is of force (no doubt)
And inward doe they freize that most doe boyle without)
Imagine how the men, who neerer to the Poule
Behold the flaming wheeles of heau'nly chariots roule,
Doe wax and multiplie: because they come but feeld
And at well-chosen times, to Cithareas field:
And sith cold weather staies about the northen Beare,
O're all that rugged coast triumphing euery where,
The liuely heat retires into the bodies tower,
And closer-trussed makes their seed of greater power.
And inward doe they freize that most doe boyle without)
Imagine how the men, who neerer to the Poule
Behold the flaming wheeles of heau'nly chariots roule,
Doe wax and multiplie: because they come but feeld
And at well-chosen times, to Cithareas field:
And sith cold weather staies about the northen Beare,
O're all that rugged coast triumphing euery where,
The liuely heat retires into the bodies tower,
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And thence the Cimbrians, Gaules, Herules and Bulgares,
The Sweues, Burgundians, Circassians and Tartares,
Huns, Lombards, Tigurines, Alanes, and Estergoths,
Turks, Vandalls, Teutonicks, Normans, and Westergoths,
Haue ouerflow'd the lands, and like to Grashoppers
Destroy'd the fairer parts of all this Vniuerse:
Whereas the barren South in all those former daies
Hath scarce been able enough two martiall bands to raise
That could the North affright; one vnder Haniball;
Who brought the Punick State both vnto rule and thrall;
Anoth'r impression made as far as Towers wall,
And there with Abderame was knockt by Charles the Maule.
The Sweues, Burgundians, Circassians and Tartares,
Huns, Lombards, Tigurines, Alanes, and Estergoths,
Turks, Vandalls, Teutonicks, Normans, and Westergoths,
Haue ouerflow'd the lands, and like to Grashoppers
Destroy'd the fairer parts of all this Vniuerse:
Whereas the barren South in all those former daies
Hath scarce been able enough two martiall bands to raise
That could the North affright; one vnder Haniball;
Who brought the Punick State both vnto rule and thrall;
Anoth'r impression made as far as Towers wall,
And there with Abderame was knockt by Charles the Maule.
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