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This that appeares to you, a walking-Thumbe,May prove, the gen'rall Spie of Christendome:Then calls for Chaines, but such as fitting seeme,For Elephants, when manag'd in a Teeme.Whilst puissant Ieff'ry 'gins to wish (in vaine)He had long since contriv'd a truce with Spaine.His Sinewes faile him now; nor doth hee yeeldMuch trust unto his Buckler, or his Shield;Yet threatens like a second Tamberlaine,To bring them 'fore the Queenes Lord-Chamberlaine;Because without the leave, of him, or her,They keepe her Houshold-Servant prisoner.Diego, that study'd wrath, more than remorse,Commands, that they to Dunkerk steere their course:Whilst Captive-Ieffr'y shewes to wiser sight,Just like a melancholy Isralite,In midst of's journey unto Babylon;Melt marble hearts, that chance to thinke thereon!The Winds are guilty too; for now beholdAlready landed this our Brittaine bold!The People view him round; some take their oathHe's humane Issue, but not yet of growth:

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