Crossword-Solution: LXIV 4 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

None answer'd this; but after Silence spake A Vessel of a more ungainly Make: "They sneer at me for leaning all awry; What? did the Hand then of the Potter shake?" LXIV.

LXIV The glorious standard last to Heaven they sprad, With Peter’s keys ennobled and his crown, With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, Embattailed in walls of iron brown: In this adventure and occasion, glad So to revive the Romans’ old renown, Or prove at least to all of wiser thought, Their hearts were fertile land although unwrought.

LXIV “Receive therefore in that unconquered hand The precious handle of this cup of love, If not religion, virtue be the band ’Twixt you to fasten friendship not to move: But for our mighty king doth understand, You mean your power ’gainst Juda land to prove, He would, before this threatened tempest fell, I should his mind and princely will first tell.

LXIV The dame who thought that one blink of her eye Could make the chastest heart feel love’s sweet pain, Oh, how her pride abated was hereby! When all her sleights were void, her crafts were vain, Some other where she would her forces try, Where at more ease she might more vantage gain, As tired soldiers whom some fort keeps out, Thence raise their siege, and spoil the towns about.

LXIV But when she saw the end, and wist withal Their strong contention should eftsoons begin, Amazement strange her courage did appal, Her vital blood was icy cold within; Sometimes she sighed, sometimes tears let fall, To witness what distress her heart was in; Hopeless, dismayed, pale, sad, astonished, Her love, her fear; her fear, her torment bred.