How death-portending Amurath did rise,

When he his horned crescents did display

70Upon the fatal plains of Servia;

And farther still his sanguine tresses spread,

Till Croya life and conquests limited.

Lastly, how Mahomet thence styl'd the Great,

Made Constantine's his own Imperial seat;

After that he in one victorious bond

Two Empires grasp'd, of Greece and Trebizond.

This, and much more than this, I gladly read,