TALTHYBIUS

My mind is mayed, my trembling sin ne was quake and are afeard, For stranger news of truth then these I think were never herd. Lo I my self have plainly seen in dawning of the day, When Phœbus first gan to approach and driven the stars away. The earth all shaken suddenly and from the hollow ground: My thought I hard with roaring cry a deep and dreadful found: That shook the woods, and all the trees ong out with thunder stroke, From Ida hills down fell the st kes, the mountain oppes were broke. And not the earth hath only quaked, but all the Sea likewise Achilles presence felt and knew, and high the surges rise. The cloven ground Erebus pits then showed and deepest dens, That down to Gods that guide beneath, the way appeared from hence. Then shook the tomb from whence anon in flame of fiery light, Appears from the hollow Can es Achilles noble spright. As wonted he his Thracian arms and bannars to disploy And wield his weighty weapons well against thassaultes of Troy, The same Achilles seemed he than that he was wont to be Amid the hosts and eas y could I know that this was he. With carcase slain in furious fight, that stopped and filled each flood. And who with slaughter of his hand made Xanthus r ne with blood, As when in Chariot high he sat with lofty stomach stout. While Hector both and Troy at once he drew the walls about. Aloud he cried, and every coast rang with Achilles found, And thus with hollow voice he spoke, from bottom of the ground. The Greeks shall not with little price redeem Achilles ire, A princely ransom must they give, for so the fates require Unto my ashes Polyxene spoused shall here be slain By Pyrrhus hand, and all my tomb her blood shall ouerstayne. This said, he Straight sank down again to Pluto's deep region, The earth then closed, the hollow caves were vanished and gone Therewith the weather waxed clear, the raging winds did slake, The tumbling seas began to rest and all the tempest brake.