3i6 Anne Bradjl reefs Works.
Muft needs go try their fortune and their might,
And ^o Lyjimachus was flain in fight;
'Twas no fmall joy unto Scleuctis breaft,
That now he had out-Hved all the rell:
Poffeilion of Europe thinks to take,
And fo himfelf the only Monarch make;
Whilft with thefe hopes in Greece he did remain,
He was by Ptolemy Cera mm s flain.
The fecond Son of the firft Ptolemy^
Who for Rebellion unto him did fly;
Seleucus was a Father and a friend.
Yet by him had this mofl: unworthy end.
Thus with thefe. Kingly Captains have wx done,
A little now how the Succefl^ion run,
Antigonus, Seleucus and Cajjfaiider^
With Plolei7iy, reign'd after Alexander ;
CaJfande7'-\ Sons foon after's death were flain,
So three SuccelTors only did remain:
Antigon7is his Kingdomes lofl; and life,
Unto Seleucus, Author of that ftrife.
His Son Demetrius, all Cajfanders gains.
And his pofterity, the fame retains;
Demetrius Son was call'd Antigonus, [i^^]
And his again was nam'd ^ Demetrius.
I muft let pals thofe many Battels fought.
Betwixt'" thofe Kings, and noble Pyrrhus ftout,
And his Son Alexander of Epire,
Whereby immortal honour they acquire;
k as. i aeaine, alio. '« Between.
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