Of Golds Kingdome, and This Vnhelping Age Described in sundry Poems intermixedly placed after certaine other Poems of more speciall respect: And before the same is an Oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the Author hereof unto the Kings Maiesty [by Edward Hake] |
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To all Worthy and well deseruing Souldiers.
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To all Worthy and well deseruing Souldiers.
True
Martial men dispaire not in the times:
Nobilitie of you must haue a care.
Liue still vntoucht of infamie and crimes,
And high Iehoue will helpe you where you are.
Are you the men who neuer yet would spare
Nor life, nor lim, for Prince and Countries good?
You are the men, the men whose losse of blood
With wounds and skars doth still on you appeare
Though cloth'd and couer'd with your best aray:
But is that all? no, this besides I heare
That what remaines of life or lim, you say,
You are content to spend it any way
At Princes pleasure, speake he but the word.
Ah good sweet harts, what more can breath afford?
Nobilitie of you must haue a care.
Liue still vntoucht of infamie and crimes,
And high Iehoue will helpe you where you are.
Are you the men who neuer yet would spare
Nor life, nor lim, for Prince and Countries good?
You are the men, the men whose losse of blood
With wounds and skars doth still on you appeare
Though cloth'd and couer'd with your best aray:
But is that all? no, this besides I heare
That what remaines of life or lim, you say,
You are content to spend it any way
At Princes pleasure, speake he but the word.
Ah good sweet harts, what more can breath afford?
Write downe your names, your seruices write downe,
And say that you deuoutely doe remaine
Prest for the field, and to forsake the Towne,
If new imployments call you forth againe.
That being done, then with the same retaine
Some one that is true Noble for your aide,
Vpon whose mediation all be laid:
But let him be like her who sometimes said
Non ignara Mali, miseris succurrere disco
So help will come from seruice or from fisco
And say that you deuoutely doe remaine
Prest for the field, and to forsake the Towne,
If new imployments call you forth againe.
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Some one that is true Noble for your aide,
Vpon whose mediation all be laid:
But let him be like her who sometimes said
Non ignara Mali, miseris succurrere disco
So help will come from seruice or from fisco
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