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ANNUS MIRABILIS:
19.
Victorious York did first with fam'd success,
To his known valour, make the Dutch give place:
Thus Heav'n our Monarch's fortune did confess,
Beginning conquest from his Royal Race.
Victorious York did first with fam'd success,
To his known valour, make the Dutch give place:
Thus Heav'n our Monarch's fortune did confess,
Beginning conquest from his Royal Race.
20.
But since it was decreed, auspicious King,
In Britains right that thou should'st wed the Main,
Heav'n, as a gage, would cast some precious thing,
And therefore doom'd that Lawson should be slain.
But since it was decreed, auspicious King,
In Britains right that thou should'st wed the Main,
Heav'n, as a gage, would cast some precious thing,
And therefore doom'd that Lawson should be slain.
21.
Lawson amongst the foremost met his fate,
Whom Sea-green Syrens from the Rocks lament
Thus as an off'ring for the Grecian State,
He first was kill'd who first to Battel went.
Lawson amongst the foremost met his fate,
Whom Sea-green Syrens from the Rocks lament
Thus as an off'ring for the Grecian State,
He first was kill'd who first to Battel went.
22.
(†) The Admiral of Holland. (†) Their Chief blown up, in air, not waves, expir'd,
To which his Pride presum'd to give the Law:
The Dutch confess'd Heaven present, and retir'd,
And all was Britain the wide Ocean saw.
(†) The Admiral of Holland. (†) Their Chief blown up, in air, not waves, expir'd,
To which his Pride presum'd to give the Law:
The Dutch confess'd Heaven present, and retir'd,
And all was Britain the wide Ocean saw.
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