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ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΙΑ.
Which (seene to both) away Physignathus
Diu'd to his deepes; as no way conscious
Of whom, he left to perish in his lake;
But shunn'd blacke fate himselfe; and let him take
The blackest of it: who amids the Fenn
Swumme with his brest vp; hands held vp in vaine,
Cried Peepe, and perisht: sunke the waters oft,
And often with his sprawlings, came aloft;
Yet no way kept downe deaths relentlesse force:
But (full of water) made an heauie Corse.
Before he perisht yet, he threatned thus;
Thou lurk'st not yet from heauen (Physignathus)
Though yet thou hid'st here, that hast cast from thee
(As from a Rocke,) the shipwrackt life of mee.
Though thou thy selfe, no better was than I
(O worst of things) at any facultie;
Wrastling or race: but for thy perfidie
In this my wracke; Ioue beares a wreakefull eie:
And to the Hoast of Mise, thou paines shalt pay
Past all euasion. This, his life let say,
And left him to the waters. Him beheld,
[1]Lichopinax; plac't in the pleasing fielde:
Who shrick't extremely; ranne and told the Mise;
Who, hauing heard his watry destinies;
Pernicious anger pierst the hearts of all;
And then their Heralds, forth they sent to call
A councell early, at Troxartes house,
Sad father of this fatall shipwrack't Mouse:
Diu'd to his deepes; as no way conscious
Of whom, he left to perish in his lake;
But shunn'd blacke fate himselfe; and let him take
The blackest of it: who amids the Fenn
Swumme with his brest vp; hands held vp in vaine,
Cried Peepe, and perisht: sunke the waters oft,
And often with his sprawlings, came aloft;
Yet no way kept downe deaths relentlesse force:
But (full of water) made an heauie Corse.
Before he perisht yet, he threatned thus;
Thou lurk'st not yet from heauen (Physignathus)
Though yet thou hid'st here, that hast cast from thee
(As from a Rocke,) the shipwrackt life of mee.
Though thou thy selfe, no better was than I
(O worst of things) at any facultie;
Wrastling or race: but for thy perfidie
In this my wracke; Ioue beares a wreakefull eie:
And to the Hoast of Mise, thou paines shalt pay
Past all euasion. This, his life let say,
And left him to the waters. Him beheld,
[1]Lichopinax; plac't in the pleasing fielde:
Who shrick't extremely; ranne and told the Mise;
Who, hauing heard his watry destinies;
Pernicious anger pierst the hearts of all;
And then their Heralds, forth they sent to call
A councell early, at Troxartes house,
Sad father of this fatall shipwrack't Mouse:
- ↑ Lick-dish.
