conquering

Must years go by in sad uncertainty

Leaving us doubting whose the conquering blows,

Are we or Fate the victors? Time which shows

O then let me in time compound,

And parly with those conquering Eyes;

Ere they have try'd their force to wound,

Where the Historian of the Common-wealth

In his own Bowels sheath'd the conquering health.

By this May to himself and them was come,

{136a} “Æneas dedicates these arms concerning the conquering

Greeks.”—_Virg. Æn._ lib. 3.

First, Victory is brought with large spread wing:

Goddess, come here; make my love conquering.

Applaud you Neptune, that dare trust his wave,

Behold thy kinsman[138] CÊsar's prosperous bands,

Who guards the[139] conquered with his conquering hands.

[227] Isham copy and ed. A "conquering."

So through the world should bright renown express me.

The other gives my love a conquering name;

Come, therefore, and to long verse shorter frame.