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1Behold how many cobwebs doth
invest1
2This ugly spider in her nasty nest,
3Where, barricaded, she in ambush lies,
4
Domitian-like2
, to murder sportive3
flies.5Yet such a monstrous spider once I saw
6That would with ease flies, wasps and hornets draw
7Most cruelly into her dusty nest;
8Then, tyrant-like she on their blood would feast.
9Yet did I see a slender
azure4
fly10Make this bloodsucking monster fall and die.
11So the most
impious5
tyrants in the world,12Even in a moment, to the grave are
whirled6
.13That
king of terrors7
doth by sentence just14Grind even their very skeletons to
dust8
;15When
he upon the pale horse9
doth appear,16A
Julianus10
then begins to fear,17Throwing his blood and spirits in the skies,
18Confessed, yet died, in his
apostasies11
.19What by the wars was
Alexander’s12
gains20When guilt his conscience, poison, stung his veins?
21So
he that hath three kingdoms in his power13
:22What comfort will they yield that fatal hour
23
Whenas14
that sea of innocent blood shall roar24To heaven for vengeance? Who can but
implore15
?25But why do I blame spider’s tyranny
26Who, forced by hunger, kills a
silly16
fly,27When man’s the greatest beast of prey of all?
28His house a
shamble17
is, or butcher’s stall.29In all those books which I have read, I find
30There’s none but man doth kill and
eat his kind18
.31The
antediluvian patriarchs19
happy were32That lived by what the earth did freely bear.
33The
Pythagoreans20
no blood would spill;34The
Banians21
now no animals do kill35But such as murderers they do esteem
36
And oft will buy those creatures to redeem.22
37But stay my pen, write no more than is
meet23
,38Lest I forget
Noah’s license, Peter’s sheet24
.