Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.
Lines from CatascoposXCIV. Anonymous
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The iust man’s right, and rigor for offenses,
By filthy lucre masqued and disguised;
Truth’s but a sound to shadow foule pretenses;
For pride, ambition, ire, and auarice,
Do dull, dimme, blanch, and blind the wisest eies.
I see how wars, the canker of estate,
Hel’s image and al commonweales’ downthrow,
Spring from the proud ambitious hart’s debate,
Where rancor, spleene, and enuie overflow:
Not multitudes of men conquest atchieve;
’Tis onely God that victorie doth giue.