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27.
Whilst this try'd truth does make their wishes sure,
 Hubert on Gartha looks, with suing Eyes
For Hermegild, whose love she will endure,
 And make Ambition yield what Youth denies.

28.
Yet in this bargain of her self, she knows
 Not how to treat; but all her chief desires,
Bids Hubert, as the Twins of his, dispose
 To glory and revenge; and then retires.

29.
But with such blushes Hermegild she leaves,
 As the unclouded Evening's Face adorn;
Nor much he for her parting glory grieves,
 Since such an Evening bodes a happy Morn.

30.
Now Hermegild by vows does Hubert binde,
 (Vows by their fate in Lombard Story known)
He Gartha makes the price of Rhodalind,
 And Aribert his Tenant to the Crown.

31.
He bids him now the Armies rage allay;
 By rage (said he) onely they Masters are
Of those they chuse, when temp'rate to obay:
 Against themselves th'impatient chiefly war.

32.
We are the Peoples Pilots, they our winds;
 To change by Nature prone; but Art Laveers,
And rules them till they rise with Stormy Minds;
 Then Art with danger against Nature Steers.

33.
Where calms have first amuz'd, Storms most prevail;
 Close first with calms the Courts suspicious Eyes;
That whilst with all their trim they sleeping sail,
 A sudden Gust may wrack them by surprize.