And Second Babell tyrant of the West,
Her angry towers upraised much more high.
But with the weight of their own surquedry,
They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare,
And buried now in their own ashes ly,
Yet showing by their heapes how great they were.
But in their place doth now a third appeare,
Fayre Venice, flower of the last worlds delight.
EDW. SPENCER (1599).