What men they be of whom shee speakes before:
And who so can men’s properties compare
And marke what beast they doe resemble more:
Shall soone discerne who is the griesly bore:
For God by beastes expresseth men’s condicions,
And not theyr badges, haroldes supersticions.
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And learned Merlyne, whom God gaue[1193] the sprite
To know and vtter princes actes to come,
Like to the Iewish prophets, did recite