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Robert Southwell's poem wonderfully captures this overturning of all our terrors and apprehensions: 'His batt'ring shots are babish cries, His arrows looks of weeping eyes'.
Christmas Sermon 2003
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_ A _Roman_ or a _Grecian_, say you, bold _Britains_ laugh at all their baubling Fights; and had _Achilles_, with his batt'ring Rams, felt half the Fury of an _English_ General, _Troy_ had ne'er bully'd out a Ten
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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