IN SYLLAM. 27.

Sylla is often challenged to the field,

To answer as a gentleman, his foes:

But then he doth this[75] answer onely yeeld,--

That he hath livings and faire lands to lose.

Silla, if none but beggars valiant were,

The King of Spaine would put us all in feare.

[Footnote 75: In first edition and Isham, "then doth he this." G. [MS.

"he doth all this." D.]]

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