A Small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden
What now! allready are those wagers layd
Which not these thousand yeares are to be payd?
Then (if the world do last soe long) then strive
Whether the great Gustavus bee alive.
Now to contend is an abortive strife,—
'Tis to make Butter's booke his booke of life.
Who can say Gideon yet, or Josua's dead,
Whilst their eternall deeds of armes are read?
Nor shall it be a Bett till the last day,
Whether this Kinge be dead, or broke his way.
'Twas said of John, that he should never dye,
And th' envious mates were checkt for reasoning why.
If this disciple also be as hee,
And tarry till Christ comes, what's that to thee?
Which not these thousand yeares are to be payd?
Then (if the world do last soe long) then strive
Whether the great Gustavus bee alive.
Now to contend is an abortive strife,—
'Tis to make Butter's booke his booke of life.
Who can say Gideon yet, or Josua's dead,
Whilst their eternall deeds of armes are read?
Nor shall it be a Bett till the last day,
Whether this Kinge be dead, or broke his way.
'Twas said of John, that he should never dye,
And th' envious mates were checkt for reasoning why.
If this disciple also be as hee,
And tarry till Christ comes, what's that to thee?
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