Frogs and Mice.
Nethlesse, although the Mice were much dismayd,
To heare the sound, and see the fearefull sight,
Yet left they not the battell as afrayd,
But stood with greater courage to the fight.
"[1]Certes, true valour may recoyle a space,
"Yet still her force renues with greater grace.
Fiercer they rage than erst they did before:
Such heapes of Frogs lye slaine upon the shore.
To heare the sound, and see the fearefull sight,
Yet left they not the battell as afrayd,
But stood with greater courage to the fight.
"[1]Certes, true valour may recoyle a space,
"Yet still her force renues with greater grace.
Fiercer they rage than erst they did before:
Such heapes of Frogs lye slaine upon the shore.
When angry Iove beheld with rufull eye,
For all his care, the Frogs still goe to wracke,
And see the Mice more desperate hereby,
Scorning his lightnings and harsh thunder-cracke,
He wept to view their slaughter and decay:
And now he thought to try a surer way,
By other meanes the Frogs from death to shend:
"For whom God loves, he favours to the end.
For all his care, the Frogs still goe to wracke,
And see the Mice more desperate hereby,
Scorning his lightnings and harsh thunder-cracke,
He wept to view their slaughter and decay:
And now he thought to try a surer way,
By other meanes the Frogs from death to shend:
"For whom God loves, he favours to the end.
From forth the Cesterne of the Ocean deepe,
Whence rivers both their springs and tydes renue,
[2]An ugly swarme of filthy monsters creepe,
A foule infernall and ill-favour'd crue,
Which still goe backward with a squinting eye,
To see before their footsteps what doth lye:
"For thus doth mother nature alwayes ayme.
"For each defect a remedy to frame.
Whence rivers both their springs and tydes renue,
[2]An ugly swarme of filthy monsters creepe,
A foule infernall and ill-favour'd crue,
Which still goe backward with a squinting eye,
To see before their footsteps what doth lye:
"For thus doth mother nature alwayes ayme.
"For each defect a remedy to frame.
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