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 * "Did never love so sweetly breathe In any mortal breast before? Did never Muse inspire beneath, A poet's brain with finer store? He wrote of love with high conceit;  And beauty reared above her height."

"Then PALLAS afterward attired Our ASTROPHIL with her device, Whom in his armour heaven admired, As of the nation of the skies: He sparkled in his arms afar,  As he were dight with fiery stars."

"The blaze whereof, when MARS beheld (An envious eye doth see afar) 'Such majesty,' quoth he, 'is seld. Such majesty, my mart may mar. Perhaps this may a suitor be  To set MARS by his deity.'"

"In this surmise, he made with speed An iron can, wherein he put The thunders that in clouds do breed; The flame and bolt together shut, With privy force burst out again;  And so our ASTROPHIL was slain."