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ΒΑΤRΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΙΑ.
Then Ioue calld all Gods, in his flaming Throne
And shewd all, all this preparation
For resolute warre. These able soldiers,
Many, and great; all shaking lengthfull spe'res:
In shew like Centaures; or the Gyants Host.
When (sweethe smiling,) he enquir'd who, most
Of all th'Immortalls, pleas'd to adde their aide
To Froggs or Mise: and thus to Pallas said;
O daughter? Must not you, needs aid these Mise?
That with the Odors, and meate sacrifice
Vs'd in your Temple, endlesse triumphs make;
And serue you, for your sacred victles sake?
Pallas repli'd; O Father, neuer I
Will aid the Mise, in anie miserie.
So many mischiefes by them, I haue found;
[1]Eating the Cotten, that my distaffs crown'd;
My lamps still banting, to deuoure the oyle.
But that which most my minde eates, is their spoile
Made of a veile, that me in much did stand:
On which, bestowing an elaborate hand;
A fine woofe working; of as pure a thredd;
Such holes therein, their Petulancies fed;
That, putting it to darning; when't'was done;
The darner, a most deare paie stood vpon
For his so deare paines; laid downe instantlie;
[2]Or (to forbeare) exacted vsurie.
So, borrowing from my Phane, the weed I woue;
I can by no meanes, th'vsurous darner, moue
And shewd all, all this preparation
For resolute warre. These able soldiers,
Many, and great; all shaking lengthfull spe'res:
In shew like Centaures; or the Gyants Host.
When (sweethe smiling,) he enquir'd who, most
Of all th'Immortalls, pleas'd to adde their aide
To Froggs or Mise: and thus to Pallas said;
O daughter? Must not you, needs aid these Mise?
That with the Odors, and meate sacrifice
Vs'd in your Temple, endlesse triumphs make;
And serue you, for your sacred victles sake?
Pallas repli'd; O Father, neuer I
Will aid the Mise, in anie miserie.
So many mischiefes by them, I haue found;
[1]Eating the Cotten, that my distaffs crown'd;
My lamps still banting, to deuoure the oyle.
But that which most my minde eates, is their spoile
Made of a veile, that me in much did stand:
On which, bestowing an elaborate hand;
A fine woofe working; of as pure a thredd;
Such holes therein, their Petulancies fed;
That, putting it to darning; when't'was done;
The darner, a most deare paie stood vpon
For his so deare paines; laid downe instantlie;
[2]Or (to forbeare) exacted vsurie.
So, borrowing from my Phane, the weed I woue;
I can by no meanes, th'vsurous darner, moue
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