<p><term id="embstma_1667_11801"/>IF <persName>LIVIES</persName> pen haue written but the truthe,<lb/> And diuerse mo, that actes of ould declare.<lb/> Then knowe, when <rs>Gaules</rs> did dare the Roman youthe,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_11802"/><persName>VALERIVS</persName>, lo, a Roman did prepare<lb/> By dinte of sword, the challenger to trye,<lb/> Who both in armes incountred by and by.<lb/> And whilst with force, they proou'd their weapons brighte,<lb/> And made the sparkes to flie out of the steele,<lb/> A <rs>Rauen</rs>, straight, vppon <persName>VALERIVS</persName> lighte,<lb/> And made his foe a newe incounter feele:<lb/> Whom hee so sore did damage, and distresse,<lb/> That at the lengthe, the Roman had successe.<lb/> For, when his foe his forces at him bente,<lb/> With winges all spread the <rs>rauen</rs> dim'd his sighte:<lb/> At lengthe, his face hee scratch'd, and all to rente,<lb/> And peck'd his eies, hee coulde not see the lighte,<lb/> Which shewes, the Lorde in daunger doth preserue,<lb/> And rauens raise our worldlie wantes to serue.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11801" lang="la"><name type="author">Aul. Gell.</name> lib. 9.<lb/> cap. 11.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11802" lang="la"><name type="author">Eutropius</name> rerum<lb/> Romanarum,<lb/> lib. 2.</gloss> </p>

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