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DEDICATORIE.
Bristl'd with Pikes, and flanck't with Flanckers ten;
Gaue fire still in his Rere, retir'd and wrought,
Downe to his fixt strength still: retir'd and fought;
All the Battaillons of the Enemies Horse
Storming vpon him still, their fieriest Force;
Charge vpon Charge laid fresh: he fresh as day
Repulsing all; and forcing glorious way
Into the Gates; that gaspt (as swounes for Ayre)
And tooke their life in, with vntoucht Repaire:
So fight out (sweet Earle) your Retreate in Peace;
No ope-warr equalls that, where priuie Prease
Of neuer-numberd odds of Enimie
Arm'd all by Enuie, in blinde Ambush lie,
To rush out, like an open threatning skie,
Broke al in Meteors round about your eares.
Gainst which, (though far frō hēce) through al your Reres
Haue fires prepar'd; wisdome, with wisdome flanck,
And all your forces randge in present ranck;
Retiring as you now fought in your strength,
From all the Force laid, in times vtmost length,
To charge, and basely, come on you behind.
The Doctrine of all which, you here shall finde,
And, in the true Glasse of a humane Minde.
Your Odysses; the Body letting see
All his life past, through Infelicitie,
And manage of it all. In which to friend,
The full Muse brings you both the prime and end
Of all Arts ambient in the Orbe of Man;
Gaue fire still in his Rere, retir'd and wrought,
Downe to his fixt strength still: retir'd and fought;
All the Battaillons of the Enemies Horse
Storming vpon him still, their fieriest Force;
Charge vpon Charge laid fresh: he fresh as day
Repulsing all; and forcing glorious way
Into the Gates; that gaspt (as swounes for Ayre)
And tooke their life in, with vntoucht Repaire:
So fight out (sweet Earle) your Retreate in Peace;
No ope-warr equalls that, where priuie Prease
Of neuer-numberd odds of Enimie
Arm'd all by Enuie, in blinde Ambush lie,
To rush out, like an open threatning skie,
Broke al in Meteors round about your eares.
Gainst which, (though far frō hēce) through al your Reres
Haue fires prepar'd; wisdome, with wisdome flanck,
And all your forces randge in present ranck;
Retiring as you now fought in your strength,
From all the Force laid, in times vtmost length,
To charge, and basely, come on you behind.
The Doctrine of all which, you here shall finde,
And, in the true Glasse of a humane Minde.
Your Odysses; the Body letting see
All his life past, through Infelicitie,
And manage of it all. In which to friend,
The full Muse brings you both the prime and end
Of all Arts ambient in the Orbe of Man;
Which
