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Mel Heliconium

or, Poeticall Honey, Gathered out of The Weeds of Parnassus ... By Alexander Rosse
  
  

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As he who did against great Jove rebell,
Was struck with Thunder, and knockt down to Hell:
So God will all you Monsters over-turn,
Who gainst the King, the Church, the State dare spurn.
Your glory shall be shame, black Hell your mansion,
Furies your fellows, brimstone and fire your pension:
Your motion's like Ægæons; when he turns,
Ætna doth shake, and for a while it burns:
But when you move, you shake the world asunder,
Whose bowels smoke, and burn and roare, till you be struck with Thunder.