Frogs and Mice.
Eat-crumme Psicharpax, which was neere allide
Vnto the kings yong sonne that erst was drown'd,
In succour of his friends the Frogs defide,
And to the battell made him ready bound,
Durty Pelusus in the panch he thrust,
Faintly the Frog sunke downe into the dust,
Whose fluttring spirit did her passage make,
Downe to [1]Avernus that unpleasant lake.
Vnto the kings yong sonne that erst was drown'd,
In succour of his friends the Frogs defide,
And to the battell made him ready bound,
Durty Pelusus in the panch he thrust,
Faintly the Frog sunke downe into the dust,
Whose fluttring spirit did her passage make,
Downe to [1]Avernus that unpleasant lake.
Pelobates, which loves to tread the myre,
Saw when his friend and fellow souldier fell,
And adding fuell to the smoking fire,
His furie into burning flames gan swell:
For filling both his hands with durt apace,
He cast it fiercely in Psicharpax face,
Which much besmeard his visage with disguise,
And almost blinded and put out his eyes.
Saw when his friend and fellow souldier fell,
And adding fuell to the smoking fire,
His furie into burning flames gan swell:
For filling both his hands with durt apace,
He cast it fiercely in Psicharpax face,
Which much besmeard his visage with disguise,
And almost blinded and put out his eyes.
But he the strong Psicharpax mov'd with spleene,
And justly angry at this beastly wrong,
Tooke up a mighty stone which there had beene
A bound or landmarke tweene two neigbours long,
And hurling it with vigour and great power,
He burst his knee asunder in that stower,
The right leg fell dismembred from his thigh,
And not once moving, on the ground doth lye.
And justly angry at this beastly wrong,
Tooke up a mighty stone which there had beene
A bound or landmarke tweene two neigbours long,
And hurling it with vigour and great power,
He burst his knee asunder in that stower,
The right leg fell dismembred from his thigh,
And not once moving, on the ground doth lye.
- ↑ It is taken for the entry into hell.
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