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Till then thy warre was but a civill warr, For which to Tryvmphs none admitted are; No more are they, (who though with good successe) In a defensiue warr their power expresse. Before Men Tryvmph the Dominion Must bee enlargd, and not preserud alone. Why shouldst thou then, whose battaile were to win Thy self from those streights Nature put thee in, And to deliuer vp to God that State, Of which hee gaue thee the Vicariate, (Which is thy Soule, and Bodie) as intire, As hee (who takes endeauours) doth require But didst not stay to enlarge his kyngdome to By making others, what thou didst, to doe. Why shouldst thou Tryvmph now, when Heavn no more Hath gott by getting thee thent had before! For heaun, and thou even when thou liuedst hence Of one another in possession were: But this from Tryvmph most disables thee, That the place which is left conquered mvst bee Left safe from present warr, And likely doubt Of emynent Coniunction to break out. And hath hee lefte vs soe, or can itt bee His Teritorie was no more butt hee? No wee are all his charge: The Diocis Of every exemplar Man, the whole World is And hee was ioynd in Commission With Tutelar Angells, sent to every one: But though thy freedome to vpbraid, and chyde Him now Tryvmphd were lawfull, it was tyde With this, that it might neuer reference haue Vnto the Senate, who this Tryvmph gaue. |
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