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In ^[1]Pelions bosome; bearing him to ground:
Whom sad death seas'd; his soule flew through his wound.
^[2]Sentlæus next, Embasichytros slew;
His heart through thrusting: then ^[3]Artophagus threw
His lance at ^[4]Polyphon; and strooke him quite
Through his midd-bellie: downe he fell vpright:
And from his fayre limms, took his soule her flight.
^[5]Lymnocharis beholding Polyphon
Thus done to death; did with as round a stone
As that the mill turnes; Troglodytes wound
Neare his mid-neck; ere he his onset found:
Whose eyes, sad darknes seas'd. ^[6]Lychenor cast
A flying dart off, and his ayme so plac't
Vpon Lymnocharis; that ^[7] Sure he thought
The wound he wisht him: nor vntruely wrought
The dire successe; for through his Lyuer flew
The fatall lance; which when ^[8]Crambaphagus knew;
Downe the deepe waues neare shore; he, diuing, fled;
But fled not fate so; the sterne enimie fed
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Death with his life in diuing: neuer more
The ayre he drew in; his Vermilian gore
Staind all the waters; and along the shore
He lay extended; his fat entrailes laie
(By his small guts impulsion) breaking waie
Out at his wound. ^[9]Lymnisius, neare the shore
Destroid Tyroglyphus: which frighted sore
The soule of ^[10]Calaminth; seeing comming on
(For wreake) ^[11]Pternoglyphus: who got him gon

With

1. Mud-borne.
2. Beet-devourer.
3. The great bread-eater.
4. The great Noise maker, shrill or bigg-voic'd.
5. The lake-louer.
6. Qui lambit culinaria vasa.
7. Τιτύσκομαι intentissime dirigo, ut certum ictum inferam.
8. The cabbage-eater.
9. Paludis incola. Lake-liuer.
10. Qui in calaminthâ, herbâ palustri habitat.
11. Bacon-eater.