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A Mighty Lion ruler of the woods, Of wondrous strength and great proportion, With hideous noise scarring the trembling trees, With yelling clamours shaking all the earth, Traversed the groves, and chased the wandering beasts. Long did he range amid the shady trees, And drove the silly beasts before his face, When suddenly from out a thorny bush, A dreadful Archer with his bow bend, Wounded the Lion with a dismal shaft, So he him stroke that it drew forth the blood, And filled his furious heart with fretting ire, But all in vain he threatens teeth and paws, And sparkleth fire from forth his flaming eyes, For the sharp shaft gave him a mortal wound, So valiant Brutus the terror of the world, Whose only looks did scar his enemies, The Archer death brought to his latest end. O what may long abide above this ground, In state of bliss and healthful happiness. Regit omniam numen. When Perseus married fair Andromeda, The only daughter of king Cepheus, He thought he had established well his Crown, And that his kingdom should for aye endure. But lo proud Phineus with a band of men, Contrived of sunburnt Aethiopians: By force of arms the bride he took from him, And turned their joy into a flood of tears. So fares it with young Locrine and his love, He thinks this marriage tendeth to his weal, But this foul day, this foul accursed day, Is the beginning of his Misery's. Behold where Humber and his Scythians Approaches nigh with all his warlike train, I needs not I, the sequel shall declare, What tragic chances fallen out in this war. Scelera I auth remembering cadunt. High on a bank by Nilus boisterous streams, Fearfully sat the Egyptian Crocodile, Dreadfully grinding in her sharp long teeth, The broken bowels of a silly fish, His back was armed against the din of spear, With shields of brass that shined Like burnished gold And as he stretched forth his cruel paws, A subtle Adder creeping closely near Thrusting his forked sting into his claws, Privily shed his poison through his bones Which made him swell that there his bowels burst, That did so much in his own greatness trust. So Humber having conquered Alba act, Does yield his glory unto L crines sword. Mark what ensues and you may easily see, That all our life is but a Tragedy. Nont m Tincriis excestnat A tna caver is Laesae furtino quam cor m lieris amore. Medea seeing Jason leave her love, And choose the daughter of the Theban king, Went to her devilish charms to work revenge, And raising up the triple Hecate, With all the rout of the condemned fiends, Framed a garland by her magic skill, With which she wrought Jason and Creons ill. So Guendoline seeing her self misused, And H mbers paramour possess her place, Flies to the dukedom of Cornubia, And with her brother stout Thrasimachus, Gathering a power of Cornish soldiers, Gives battle to her husband and his host, Nigh to the river of great Mertia, The chances of this dismal massacre, That which ensueth shortly will unfold. Exit. Lo here the end of lawless treachery, Of usurpation and ambitious pride, And they that for their private amours dare Turmoil ou land, and S heir brolles abroach, Let them be warned by these premises, And as a woman n was the only cause That civil discord was then stirred up, So let us pray for that renowned , That eight and thirty years w ed, In quiet peace and sweet felicity, And every wight that seeks her g es smart, would that this sword were pi ee in his heart. Exit.