The Year of Wonders.
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With equal pow'r he does two Chiefs create,
Prince Rupert and Duke Albemarl sent to Sea. Two such, as each seem'd worthiest when alone:
Each able to sustain a Nations fate,
Since both had found a greater in their own.
With equal pow'r he does two Chiefs create,
Prince Rupert and Duke Albemarl sent to Sea. Two such, as each seem'd worthiest when alone:
Each able to sustain a Nations fate,
Since both had found a greater in their own.
48
Both great in Courage, Conduct, and in Fame,
Yet neither envious of the others Praise;
Their Duty, Faith, and Int'rest too the same,
Like mighty Partners equally they raise.
Both great in Courage, Conduct, and in Fame,
Yet neither envious of the others Praise;
Their Duty, Faith, and Int'rest too the same,
Like mighty Partners equally they raise.
49
The Prince long time had courted Fortune's love,
But once possess'd, did absolutely reign;
Thus with their Amazons the Heroes strove,
And conquer'd first those Beauties they would gain.
The Prince long time had courted Fortune's love,
But once possess'd, did absolutely reign;
Thus with their Amazons the Heroes strove,
And conquer'd first those Beauties they would gain.
50
The Duke beheld, like Scipio, with disdain
That Carthage, which he ruin'd, rise once more:
And shook aloft the Fasces of the Main,
To fright those Slaves with what they felt before.
The Duke beheld, like Scipio, with disdain
That Carthage, which he ruin'd, rise once more:
And shook aloft the Fasces of the Main,
To fright those Slaves with what they felt before.
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