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Your honors obseruant
seruant,

Wil. Barksted.

The faire Greeke.

1

Of _Amuraths_ yong spleenfull sonne I sing,
His sonne, who to the Strand of _Hellespont_
And to the great Sea-cost his bounds did bring,
Whose Empire so the _Grecians_ did confront,
That euen from _Pindus_, and _Thomao_ Mont.
From darke _Morea_ to _Corinthian_ streights,
From _Burgon_ to _Hungaria's_ broken wing,
His Nauy fetch'd contributary freights.

2

Yong _Mahomet_, the wanton of her eie,
Which teacheth wars, & caught his nonage daies
That gaue such hansell of his tyranny,
In those first battails, and apprentize sayes,
Which did so hotly dart their early rayes,
On _Sigismond_, or that wherein was tane,
_Philip_ the noble Duke of _Burgondy_,
With him kept prisoner, o farre better slaine!

3

Yong _Mahomet_ to _Greece_ the fatall scourge,
Which thither death, and desolation brought,
Euen to the faire _Constantinoples_ veirdge,
The _Grecian_ Empires chaire, the which he sought
For which a huge digested army fought.
And at the last, distressed _Constantine_,
And of all Christians did the Citty purge,
O shame to _Europes_ Peeres, and Kings diuine.

4

Let _Italy_ take heed, the New-moone threats,
To reare his hornes on _Romes_ great Capitall,
And doth not _Rome_ deserue such rough defeats,
That should be mother of compassion all?
And couenite the states, and principall
In league, and loue, which now for trifles iarre,
The _Persian Sophy_ shames our Christian feats,
Who with the _Souldan_ ioynes gainst _Turkish_ war.

5

Had _Constantine_, that three times sacred Prince,
Beene rescu'd then by power of Christendome,
_Mathias_ neuer should haue cran'd defence,
Of _Germans_, _English_, _Spanish_, _France_, and _Rome_,
Taxes of warre, to these climes had not come:
Nor yet the _Turke_ with all his barbarous hoast,
Durst with the Catholikes such war commence,
Where now they haue heard their drums, & feard their hoast.

6

Who reads or heares the losse of that great town
_Constantinople_ but doth wet his eyes?
Where litle babes fr[=o] windows were pusht down
Yong Ladies blotted with adulteries,
Old fathers s