Page:Batrachomyomachia, or, the wonderfull and bloudy Battell betweene Frogs and Mice.djvu/64

No, rather send the gods, send all the power,
That highest heavenly Hierarchies can make,
Or on their heads lightning with thunder shower,
(That all their armie may with terrour quake)
With which thou slyw'st the Giants long agone,
^[1]Enceladus, and proud ^[2]Apolloes sonne.
Thus ended frowning Mars. To whose behest
Great Iove gave full consent, with all the rest.

And presently ascending up the tower,
Where sulphrous brands with stony darts of fire,
And all the weapons of his might and power
Are kept, to plague proud rebels in his ire:
First, there he caus'd great gastly flames arise,
And thunder-claps, that seem'd to rend the skies,
And still among this hideous roaring sound,
He darted burning bolts the Mice to wound.

Pale feare assayled both the Frogs and Mice,
When first on sudden they the thunder heard,
So great a terrour in their mindes did rise,
As though with spirits they had beene askard:
"For who in's brest so stout a heart doth beare,
"That when heav'ns thunder, doth not quake for feare,
"And stand amaz'd to view with mortall eyes,
"When angry Iove darts lightning from the skies?

1. A great Giant which Iupiter slew with lightning.
2. Phaeton, he was slayne with thunder.

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