Of little Malta: famous for the stile

Of honour’d Knight-hood, drawne from great Saint John,

Whose Order and the Manner, I’le expone:

Whence Coasting Sicilie, a tripled view

I tooke of Ætna: Time discussing you

A miracle of Mettall; for its Kind

[IX. 380.]Is nurs’d by Raine, and suffled up with wind:

And thwarting Italy, the Venice Gulfe,

Carindia, Carneola, the stiffe stream’d Dolf;

Head-strong Danubio, Vienne, Austriaes Queene,