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A HYMNE TO APOLLO.
Ample, and of a length of great extent;
In which Trophonius, and Agamede
(Who of Erginus, were the famous seed)
Impos'd the stonie Entrie: and the Heart
Of euery God had, for their excellent Art.
About the Temple dwelt, of humane Name
Unnumbred Nations; it acquir'd such Fame;
Being all of stone, built for eternall date;
And neare it did a Fountaine propagate
A fayre streame farr away; when Ioues bright seed,
(The King Apollo) with an arrow, (freed
From his strong string) destroid the Dragonesse
That Wonder nourisht; being of such excesse
In size, and horridnesse of monstrous shape,
That on the forc't earth, she wrought many a rape;
Many a spoile, made on it, many an ill
On crooke-hancht Herds brought; being impurpl'd still
With blood of all sorts: Hauing undergone
The charge of Iuno, with the golden Throne,
To nourish Typhon the abhorr'd affright
And bane of mortalls. Whom, into the light
Saturnia brought forth, being incenst with Ioue;
Because the most renown'd fruit of his loue
(Pallas) he got, and shooke out of his braine.
For which; Maiestique Iuno, did complaine
In this kinde, to the blest Court of the skies;
Know all ye sex-distinguisht Deities;
That Ioue (assembler of the cloudie throng)
In which Trophonius, and Agamede
(Who of Erginus, were the famous seed)
Impos'd the stonie Entrie: and the Heart
Of euery God had, for their excellent Art.
About the Temple dwelt, of humane Name
Unnumbred Nations; it acquir'd such Fame;
Being all of stone, built for eternall date;
And neare it did a Fountaine propagate
A fayre streame farr away; when Ioues bright seed,
(The King Apollo) with an arrow, (freed
From his strong string) destroid the Dragonesse
That Wonder nourisht; being of such excesse
In size, and horridnesse of monstrous shape,
That on the forc't earth, she wrought many a rape;
Many a spoile, made on it, many an ill
On crooke-hancht Herds brought; being impurpl'd still
With blood of all sorts: Hauing undergone
The charge of Iuno, with the golden Throne,
To nourish Typhon the abhorr'd affright
And bane of mortalls. Whom, into the light
Saturnia brought forth, being incenst with Ioue;
Because the most renown'd fruit of his loue
(Pallas) he got, and shooke out of his braine.
For which; Maiestique Iuno, did complaine
In this kinde, to the blest Court of the skies;
Know all ye sex-distinguisht Deities;
That Ioue (assembler of the cloudie throng)
