Edmund Waller, A Poem on the Present Assembling of the Parliament… (1679)
“ But to Judge Kingdoms and Dispose of States. From You, their Rise, or Downfall, they assume, Expecting from our Capitol their Doom: You Form their Peace and War, as You approve They close in Leagues, or to fierce Battele move. ”
Edmund Waller, A Poem on the Present Assembling of the Parliament… (1679)
“ Can ne're Engage on Equal Terms with Ours. In Nature we have th' Odds, they Dread, we Scorn, The English o're the French are Conq'rors Born. The Terrour still of our Third Edward's Name Rebukes their Pride, and Damps their tow'ring Fame ”
