Minerva Britanna Or A Garden of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures, Newly devised, moralized, and published, By Henry Peacham |
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Atheôn exitus.
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Atheôn exitus.
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Atheists vile, that Giant-like attemptes,
To bandie faction with Almightie IOVE,
And thinkes this fraile worlds priviledge exemptes,
All Faith, and Feare, due vnto heauen aboue:
Vnto his terror, let him heere behold,
What Histories of IULIAN haue told.
To bandie faction with Almightie IOVE,
And thinkes this fraile worlds priviledge exemptes,
All Faith, and Feare, due vnto heauen aboue:
Vnto his terror, let him heere behold,
What Histories of IULIAN haue told.
For after that he had his Lord defi'de,
And wounded deadly lay in deepe dispaire,
Thou, GALLILÆAN now or'ecom'st, he cri'de,
Wherewith he cast his blood into the Aire:
A fit example, for the faithles wight,
And such as in prophanenes doe delight.
And wounded deadly lay in deepe dispaire,
Thou, GALLILÆAN now or'ecom'st, he cri'de,
Wherewith he cast his blood into the Aire:
A fit example, for the faithles wight,
And such as in prophanenes doe delight.
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