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proud manner. and peace continued for a long time, riches increased in abundance, md he was blest with many children, viz. Hector, a noble valiant knight, Paris, sir- named Alexander, Deiphebus, Melenus, and Troilus, his five sons, his daughters were Creusa wife of Aeneas, Exione. and Cassan- dra; these he had by his queen, daughter to Aegiphis, king of Thrace, but a greater number by his concubines, which prosperi- ty puffed him up with pride and put him u- pon what fatally proved his destruction, viz. To be revenged on the Greeks, for the in- ury they had done, and to return his after from the hands of Ajax: To contrive this, many councils were held. Paris, one of his sons, who had been turned out to a des- perate fortune, because his mother, when she was big with him, dreamed she brought forth a firebrand that set Troy on fire, and the Oracle foretold thereupon, she fhould bring forth a son that should cause the de- struction of the city, arose up from his seat and told a dream he had in Mount Ida, whilst he was a shepherd there, viz, Venus, Juno, and Pallas, who contended for a golden apple thrown among them, inscrib- ed, “ Be it given to the fairest,” desiring him to decide the controversy; Juno, if it fell to her share, promising him kingdoms, riches, and honour; Pallas, on her ac- count victory in all battles, and to be the most