Sir John Davies. "Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World": The Soldier.

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Yet Other Twelve Wonders of the World

by Sir John Davies

III. The Souldier

My occupation is, the noble trade of Kings,
The tryall that decides the highest right of things :
Though Mars my master be, I doe not Venus loue,
Nor honour Bacchus oft, nor often sweare by Ioue ;
Of speaking of my selfe, I all occasion shunne,
And rather loue to doe, then boast what I haue done.

Source:
Davies, Sir John. The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Vol II.
Rev. Alexander B, Grosart, Ed.
London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1876. 67.

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