The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Lyon-Hearted Hercules

by Homer

TO

LYON-HEARTED

Hercules.

llcides, (Force-fullest of all the Broode
Of Men, enforc't with neede of earthie foode,)
My Muse shal memorise; the son of Ioue;
Whom, in faire-seated Thebs (commixt in loue
With great Heauens sable-cloude-assembling state)
Alcmena bore to him. And who (in date
Of daies forepast) through all the Sea was sent
And Earths inernarable Continent,
To Acts, that King Eurystheus had decreede.
Did many a Petulant, and Imperious Deede
Himselfe; and therefore, suffer'd many a Toile.
Yet now inhabites the illustrious Soile
Of white Olympus; and Delights his life
With still young Hebe; his well-anckled wife.
Haile, King; and Sonne of Ioue; vouchsafe thou Me
Virtue; and her Effect, Felicitie.

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