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To

Castor

and

Pollvx.

oues faire Sonnes, Father'd by Th'Oebalian King,
Muses-well-worth-All Mens beholdings, sing:
The Deare Birth, that Bright-Anckl'd Læda bore;
Horse-taming Castor; and the Conqueror
Of Tooth-tongu'd Momus (Pollux:) whom beneath
Steepe-Browd Taygetus, she gaue half-God breath;
In Loue mixt with the black-cloudes King of heauen:
Who, both of Men and ships, (being Tempest driuen,
When Winters wrathfull Empire, is in force
Upon th'Implacable Seas) preserue the course.
For when the Gusts beginn; (if nere the shore)

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