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Sonnet on the Fall of Troy: Troyes fruitfull Queene did many Children bare
From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)
Troyes fruitfull Queene did many Children bare,
So braue, heroike, and so slout a Crew:
Who all in noble actions did accrue,
When age had made their Parents balde and bare,
They made their daintlesse courage to appeare,
Amidst the throngs of danger and debate:
Where wars remorselesse stroake kil'd many a Peere,
Whilest swords, not words, their counsels did debate:
But bloud on bloud, their furie could not sate,
For fierce Achilles did braue Hector gore:
To guerdon which, the Graecian in his gore
Did wallow, whilest the Troians laughing sate.
Thus did Achilles bid the world adiewe
For Hectors death, Reuenge did claime a due.
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Taylor, John. “Sonnet on the Fall of Troy: Troyes fruitfull Queene did many Children bare.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/140/.
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