Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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(36) Our terme or limit of life not remoueable.
ffrom neck it hath the humane shape,the rest a piller stone:
Thus Terminus the god is made,
of all the godds alone;
Whome, when the ruler of the starrs
beheld with scornefull face,
Hee willd him to depart the feilde,
and leaue to him the place.
But Terminus, all confident,
did bouldlie to him saye,
‘I yeald to none’: the septred Ioue
could not drive him awaye.
Hee standeth fixte, not to be moved,
whome wee cannot intreate
with price, nor prayer, with wordes, nor giftes,
nor yet with angrie threate.
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doth limit to our daies,
not to be changed or removed,
to lengthe them anie waies.
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