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This shore of ours? who brought you forth? replie,
What truth may witnesse, lest I finde, you lie.
If worth fruition of my loue, and me;
Ile haue thee home; and Hospitalitie
Of feast, and gift; good and magnificent
Bestow on thee: For all this Confluent
Resounds my Royaltie; my Name, the great
In blowne-vp count'nances; and lookes of threat,
^[1]Physignathus; ador'd of all Frogs here
All their daies durance; And the Empire beare
Of all their Beings. Mine owne Beeing, begot
By royall ^[2]Peleus; mixt in nuptiall knot,
With faire ^[3]Hydromedusa; On the Bounds
Nere which ^[4]Eridanus, his Race resounds.
And Thee, mine Eie, makes my Conceipt enclinde
To reckon powerfull, both in forme, and Minde:
A Scepter-bearer; And past others farre,
Aduanc't in all the fiery Fights of warre.
Come then, Thy race, to my renowne commend.
The Mouse made answer; why enquires my friend?
For what so well, know men and Deities,
And all the wing'd affecters of the skies?
^[5]Psycharpax, I am calld; ^[6]Troxartes seede;
Surnam'de the Mighty-Minded: She that free'd
Mine eies from darknesse; was ^[7]Lichomyle,
King ^[8]Pternotroctes Daughter; shewing me
Within an aged houell, the young light:
Fed me with figges, and nuts; and all the height

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1. Φυσιγναθος, Genas & buccas inflans.
2. Πηλεύς, qui ex luto nascitur.
3. Ὕδρομέδυσα. Aquarum regina.
4. The river Po, in Italy.
5. Ψυχάρπαξ. Gather-crum, or lavish-crum.
6. Shear-crust.
7. Lick-mill.
8. Bacon-flitch-devourer, or gnawer.