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Such * Buda saw him, when proud -j- Afti sell,

, Unhappy, Valiant Infidel!

Who, vanquisli’d by superior Strength,

Surrender’d up his haughty Breath,

Upon the Breach measuring his manly Length,

And fhunn’d the Bow-string by a nobler Death.

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Such J HarsciIam’s Field beheld him in his Bloom,When Vidtory bespoke him for her own,

Her Favourite, Immortal Son, ,

And told of better Years revolving on the Loom:

How he should make the ‘7 urkijb Crescent wane,

And choak \ Dibifcus with the Slain ;

While Vitiers lay beneath the lofty PileOf slaughter'd Bajjaus, who o’er Bajjfaus roll’d,

And all his num'rous Acts she told,

From Latian Carpi down to Flattdrian Lisle.

Where

* s/e here a considerable Share in the Clory of thatDay on which Buda was taken.

f lie wens Basiau of the City, and lost his Life en theBreach.

VlCEM GERIT ILLA ToNANTIS.

J This was the fatal Battle to the Turks in the Year16S7. Prince Eugene, with the. Regiments of his Bri-gade, was the first that enter d the Drenches; and forthat Reason had the Honour to be the first Mefenger ofthis happy News to the Emperor.

H This Battle was fought on the 10 th of October,1697. where Prince Eugene commanded in Chief; inwhich there newer happen d so great and so terrible aDestruction to the Ottoman Army, which fell upon theprincipal Commanders more than the common Soldiers ;for no less than fifteen BafTaus [f ve of which had beenViziers of the Bench) inere filled, besides the supremeVizier.