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Bosworth-field

With a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems, Left by Sir John Beaumont ... Set Forth by his Sonne, Sir Iohn Beaumont
 

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Vpon my Lord of Buckinghams Armes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Vpon my Lord of Buckinghams Armes.

Behold, the Ensignes of a Christian Knight,
VVhose Field is like his minde, of siluer bright:
His bloudy Crosse supports fiue golden Shels,
A precious Pearle, in euery Scallop dwels:
Fiue Vertues grace the middle and the bounds,
VVhich take their light frō Christs victorious wounds:
Vpon the Top, commanding Prudence shines,
Repressing Temp'rance to the foote declines;
Braue Fortitude and Iustice, are the hands,
And Charity as in the Center stands:
VVhich binding all the ends with strong effect
To euery Vertue, holds the same respect:
May he that beares this Shield, at last obtaine
The azure Circle of celestiall raigne;
And hauing past the course of sliding houres,
Enioy a Crowne of neuer-fading Flow'rs?