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Elephant and serpent (A bloody victory)

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To Sir William Standley Knight

Bloody victory

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61B2(STANLEY, William)3

86(VICTORIA CRUENTA)

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<p>THE <rs>Olephante</rs> with stinge of <rs>serpent</rs> fell,<lb/> That still about his legges, with winding cralles:<lb/> Throughe poison stronge, his bodie so did swell,<lb/> That doune he sinkes, and on the <rs>serpente</rs> falles:<lb/> Which creature huge, did fall vppon him soe,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_21101"/>That by his deathe, he also kill'd his foe.<lb/> Those sharpe conflictes, those broiles and battailes maine,<lb/> That are atchieude, with spoile on either parte:<lb/> Where streames of blood the hilles, and valleys staine,<lb/> And what is wonne, the price is deathe, and smarte:<lb/> This dothe importe: But those are captaines good,<lb/> That winne the fielde, with sheddinge leaste of blood.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_21101" lang="la">Non est tanti gau-<lb/> dij excelsa tenere;<lb/> quanti moeroris est,<lb/> de excelsis corruere:<lb/> nec tanta gloria se-<lb/> qui potest victo-<lb/> riam, quanta igno-<lb/> minia potest sequi<lb/> ruinam.<name type="author">Amb.</name></gloss> </p>

Victoria cruenta

Tödlicher Sieg

A dying elephant falls on the snake (dragon) that killed it

Victoria cruenta

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