|S+t+| Fame dispos'd to cunnycatch the world,
 Vproar'd a wonderment of Eighty Eight:
 The Earth addreading to be ouerwhurld,
 What now auailes, quoth She, my ballance weight ?
 The Circle smyl'd to see the Center feare :
 The wonder was, no wonder fell that yeare.

 Wonders enhaunse their powre in numbers odd:
 The fatall yeare of yeares is Ninety Three :
 Parma hath kist; De-maine entreates the rodd:
 Warre wondreth, Peace and Spaine in Fraunce to see.
 Braue Eckenberg, the dowty Bassa shames :
 The Christian Neptune, Turkish Vulcane tames.

 Nauarre wooes Roome: Charlmaine giues Guise the Phy:
 Weepe Powles, thy Tamberlaine voutsafes to dye.


L'enuoy.
 The hugest miracle remaines behinde ,
 The second Shakerley Rash-Swash to binde.