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To Mars.

ars Most-strong: Gold-helm'd; making Chariots crack;
Neuer without a shield, cast on thy back.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Minde master, towne-guard, with darts neuer driuen.
Strong-handed; Allarmes; fort, and fence of heauen.
Father of Victory, with faire strokes giuen.
Ioint surrogate of Iustice; lest she fall;
In vniust strifes, a Tyrant. Generall,
Onely of iust Men, iustly. That dost beare
Fortitud's Scepter. To Heauens fiery sphere
Giuer of circulare motion: betweene
That, and the Pleiad's that still wandring bene.
Where thy still-vehemently-flaming Horse,
About the third Heauen, make their fiery course.
Helper of Mortalls; Heare! As thy fires giue
The faire, and present boldnesses that striue
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$In Youth for Honor; being the sweete-beamd Light
That darts into their liues, from all thy Height
The Fortitudes, and Fortunes, found in fight.

So,