[ADDRESS] TO BELLONA AND KING JAMES V.
From the “Proloug apoun the Traduction of Titus Livius.”[702]
Armipotent lady, Bellona serene,
Goddes of wisdome and jeoperdyis of were[703],
Sister of Mars, and ledare of his rene.
And of his batallis awfull messingere!
Thy werelyke trumpett thounder in mine ere—
The horribill battellis and the bludy harmes—
To write of Romanis, the nobil men of armes.