Frogs and Mice.
Thus whiles the conquest was to neither bent,
But poizd in ballance betweene hope and feare,
Those two which hold the supreme government
O're both the armies which in battell were,
[1]The Kings of Frogs and Mice together meete,
Where they with mortal blows each other greet:
"But cowards often faintly step aside,
"When manhood is by resolution tride.
But poizd in ballance betweene hope and feare,
Those two which hold the supreme government
O're both the armies which in battell were,
[1]The Kings of Frogs and Mice together meete,
Where they with mortal blows each other greet:
"But cowards often faintly step aside,
"When manhood is by resolution tride.
For scarce they had encountred in the fight,
And lent some equall strokes on either side,
When king of Mice thinking his foe to smite
Vpon the head, his sword to ground did glide,
But yet his foot it wounded when it fell,
Which blow did much his haughty courage quell:
For he which erst was author of this strife,
Now seekes the bogs for safegard of his life.
And lent some equall strokes on either side,
When king of Mice thinking his foe to smite
Vpon the head, his sword to ground did glide,
But yet his foot it wounded when it fell,
Which blow did much his haughty courage quell:
For he which erst was author of this strife,
Now seekes the bogs for safegard of his life.
The valourous incensed king of Mice,
Seeing the Frogs proud king so basely flye,
Which was of late so resolute and wise,
To vaunt of trophies ere he blowes did try,
Calling his souldiers on with cheerefull hue,
His fainting weary foe he doth pursue,
Stil hoping (since his wound had made him slow)
To overtake him with a fatall blow.
Seeing the Frogs proud king so basely flye,
Which was of late so resolute and wise,
To vaunt of trophies ere he blowes did try,
Calling his souldiers on with cheerefull hue,
His fainting weary foe he doth pursue,
Stil hoping (since his wound had made him slow)
To overtake him with a fatall blow.
- ↑ The conflict of the two kings.
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