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Mercury, conducting the Ghosts of Brennus and Camillus, in compleate ar∣mour, and with swords drawne.
MEr.
As in the vaults of this big-bellied earth,
Are dungeons, whips, and flames, for wicked Ghosts;
So faire Elysian fieldes; where spotlesse soules
Doe bathe themselues in blisse. Among the rest,
Two pleasant Groues by two sorts are possest:
One by true Louers crown'd with myrtle boughes,
Who hand in hand sing Paeans of their ioy:
Braue Souldiers hold the second, clad in steele,
Whose glittering Armes brighten those gloomy shades,
In lieu of Starry lights. From hence I bring
A paire of Martiall Impes, By Ioues decree,
As sticklers in their Nations enmity.
Furious Camillus, and thou Britaine bold
Great Brennus, sheath your conquering blades: In vaine
You threaten death: For Ghosts may not be slaine.
Brenn.
From the vnbounded Ocean, and cold climes,
Where Charles his wayne circles the Northerne Pole:
I first lead out great swarmes of shaggy Gaules,
And big-bon'd Britaines. The white-pated Alpes,
Where snow and winter dwell, did bow their neckes
To our victorious feete: Rome, proudest Rome,
We cloath'd in skarlet of patrician blood,
And 'bout your Capitoll prauns'd our vaunting steedes,
Defended more by Geese, than by your gods.
Cam.
But I cut short your fury, and my sword
Redeem'd the City, making your huge vast trunkes
To fat our Crowes, and dung our Latian fields:
I turn'd your Torrent to another Coast:
And what you quickly woone, you sooner lost.