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Duplicate and Fragmentery Centuries
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69. Savoy near to go far, Lake of Geneva,
Very great preparations, return, confusion:
Far from the nephews of the late great “Supelman,”[1]
All of their following...
Very great preparations, return, confusion:
Far from the nephews of the late great “Supelman,”[1]
All of their following...
71. Rivers, streams will be obstacles to evil,
The old flame of anger unappeased:
To run in France; this as of oracles,
Houses, manors, Palace, shaven sect.
The old flame of anger unappeased:
To run in France; this as of oracles,
Houses, manors, Palace, shaven sect.
- ↑ “Superman”? See note 2, opposite. Inasmuch as three years before the 1605 edition ppeared the Duke of Savoy made a sensational “last try” to capture Geneva, this verse is not above suspicion. Garenciéres, applying it to his famous “Escalade,” sees Supelman as Henry IV, but explains neither the derivation, the relationship (there were no Condés Contis involved) nor the “late” (Henry lived eight years beyond it).
