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 The Four Monarchies. 199

A Vice-Roy from her foe fhe's glad to accept, B-y whom in firm obedience fhe is kept. This King's lefs fam'd for all the a6ts he's done, Then being Father to fo great a Son/

��Nebuchadnezzar, or Ncbopolaffar.

nr^HE famous a6ls" of this heroick King

-^ Did neither Homer, Hejiod, Virgil ^\x\^'. Nor of his Wars " have we the certainty From fome Thucidides grave hillory; Nor's Metamorphofis from Ovids book, Nor his reftoriag from old Legends took: But by the Prophets, Pen-men moft divine, [84J

This prince in's magnitude doth ever fliine: This was of Monarchyes that head of gold, The richeft and the dread fulleft to behold: This was that tree whole branches fill'd the earth. Under whole fhadow birds and beafts had birth : This was that king of kings, did what he pleas'd, Kil'd, fav'd, pul'd down, let up, or pain'd or eas'd; And this was he, who when he fear'd the leaft Was chano^ed '" from a Kino^ into a beall.*

^ These two lines are not in the first edition. « Wars. v adls. »f turned.


 * Dan. ii. 32, 37, 38; iv. 10-12. H-

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