Gabriel Harvey

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Gorgon or the Wonderful Year

|S+t+| Fame dispos'd to cunnycatch the world, Vproar'd a wonderment of Eighty Eight: The Earth addreading to be ouerwhurld, What now auailes, quoth She, my ballance weight ? The Circle smyl'd to see the Center feare : The wonder was, no wonder fell that yeare. Wonders enhaunse their powre in numbers odd: The fatall yeare of yeares is Ninety Three : Parma hath kist; De-maine entreates the rodd: Warre wondreth, Peace and Spaine in Fraunce to see. Braue Eckenberg, the dowty Bassa shames : The Christian Neptune, Turkish Vulcane tames. Nauarre wooes Roome: Charlmaine giues Guise the Phy: Weepe Powles, thy Tamberlaine voutsafes to dye. L'enuoy. The hugest miracle remaines behinde , The second Shakerley Rash-Swash to binde.