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Will hazard that we might with surety hold.

ORCANES. 6 Though from the shortest northern parallel,

Vast Grantland, compass'd with the Frozen Sea,

(Inhabited with tall and sturdy men,

Giants as big as hugy 7 Polypheme,)

Millions of soldiers cut the 8 arctic line,

Bringing the strength of Europe to these arms,

Our Turkey blades shall glide through all their throats,

And make this champion 9 mead a bloody fen:

Danubius' stream, that runs to Trebizon,

Shall carry, wrapt within his scarlet waves,

As martial presents to our friends at home,

The slaughter'd bodies of these Christians:

The Terrene 10 main, wherein Danubius falls,

Shall by this battle be the bloody sea:

The wandering sailors of proud Italy

Shall meet those Christians, fleeting with the tide,

Beating in heaps against their argosies,

And make fair Europe, mounted on her bull,

Trapp'd with the wealth and riches of the world,

Alight, and wear a woful mourning weed.

GAZELLUS. Yet, stout Orcanes, pro-rex of the world,