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He was a man of mighty hand,
And with him brought of divers land,
Nine and twenty rich kings
To make on him bataylings[1]:
Nectabanus it understood;
Ychanged was all his mood;
He was afraid sore of harm:
Anon he did cast his charm,
His image he made anon,
And of his barons every one,
And afterward of his fone[2]
He made them together gone[3]
In a basin all by charm:
He saw on him fall the harm;
He saw fly of his baróns
Of all his land distinctions[4],
He looked, and knew in the star,
Of all these kings the great war.
"Afterwards he frames an image of the queen Olympias, or Olympia, while sleeping, whom he violates in the shape of a dragon.
"The lady lay upon her bed,
Covered well with silken web,
