. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . h thoufande men, hceouercame. And three fbore fhippes, and eeke two hundreth flattringc fate, in fine vppon him , after by Xantippvs Carthage broughte, in dungeon deepc was cafte;Yet, with defire for to redecmc their meilenger they made him, at the lafte:And in exchaunge, hee vnto Rome was prifbners there, and on his worde he promif^d this, hee woulde retourne to that he
. A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised . h thoufande men, hceouercame. And three fbore fhippes, and eeke two hundreth flattringc fate, in fine vppon him , after by Xantippvs Carthage broughte, in dungeon deepc was cafte;Yet, with defire for to redecmc their meilenger they made him, at the lafte:And in exchaunge, hee vnto Rome was prifbners there, and on his worde he promif^d this, hee woulde retourne to that hee faild of that, they did require:But when hee fawe fo manie in their handcs,Thoughe Romanes glad, did graunt him his defire:Yet coulde hee not theretoo, in harte agree,Bycaufe for him , Co manie fhoulde bee , countries loue, was dearer then his backe retournde, to keepe his promife true:Where hee did tafte longe time of tormentes yet, his harte no tortures coulde fubdue-His mangled eies, the Sonne all daye adailes;And in the ende, was thrufte in tonne with nailes. Marcos Marcus Sergitss, Former & felictter. 1^5. J^^;^ir4?ffj^ luTV MarcSergivs nowe, I maye recorde by righte,A Romane boulde, whon^e foes coulde not difmayc: «Gainfte Hannibal hee often {hcwde his mightc, zs. Wliofe righte hande lofte, his lefte hee did afTayeVntill at Icngthe an iron hande hee prooud:And after that Cremona fiege remoou d. Then, did defende Placentia in diftrefle,And wanne twelue houldcs, by dinte of f;vorde in France,What triumphes great ? were made for his fuccefTe,Vnto what ftate did fortune him aduance ? Whatfpcarcs? wliat crounes? whatgarlandes hee pofleftj TJie honours due for them,tliat did the belle. P i C/7. Pont
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