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TO CASTOR
AND
POLLVX.

Castor and Pollux, (the Tyndarides)
Sweete Muse illustrate; that their Essences
Fetch from the high forms of Olympian Ioue;
And were the faire fruits of bright Leda's Loue.
Which shee produc't, beneath the sacred shade
Of steepe Taygetus; being subdu'd; and made
To serue th' Affections of the Thunderer.
And so, all Grace to you; whom all Auer,
(For skill in Horses, and their Manage geuen)
To be the brauest Horsemen, vnder Heauen.

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