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A decorative ornamental initial 'Q' containing a central flower and scrolling foliage.
What are you preparing at last, BELLONA goddess of war, and GRADIVUS epithet of Mars? What are you doing among the Pannonian Hungarian ranks and the Scythian phalanxes? With doubt and effort you press nations with hope and fear, you suspend minds, and being ambiguous about the future, you play with blind hearts through terrified fear on both sides. Descend from the heavens with the fortunate signs of the CHRISTIANS, and armed with GOD, join our side, and with the Caesar's eagles mark all the fields, so that at last the hour long desired and sought with anxious prayers may go to the destruction of the followers of Soliman Suleiman the Magnificent. Let the Oghuz Turkic tyrant learn with his Scythian people that the CHRIST we worship is GOD, and let him experience his own ranks turned to dust, and let him wail and groan, as the Fates roll toward his destined ruin. Behold, the earth quickly reveals its seeds, and sets forth its riches, which the farmer, faithful to himself, has entrusted to the furrowed fields, and it teaches not idly through knots and dense growth. For the winter frost and the long madness of the North Wind had cast all the farmers into August hope. But when March brought large fires to the fields, and drove away the precipitous snows and the plows and the labors of the oxen, and stirred up the arc of shoots from the ground, and purple flowers among the greening grasses: he relaxed his cares, with spirits ordered to trust.