There also was king Croesus,[°] that enhaunst
His hart too high through his great riches store;
And proud Antiochus,[°] the which advaunst
His cursed hand gainst God and on his altars daunst.
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And them long time before, great Nimrod[°] was,
That first the world with sword and fire warrayd;
And after him old Ninus[°] farre did pas
In princely pompe, of all the world obayd;