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         the Destruction of Troy. 7

" the gods I swear, as I with this club have " delivered Troy from many evils, with " the same I will bring far worse upon it, " so that the living Trojans shall say, those " that died of the plague are the happier." And thereupon turning his back on the proud walls of Troy, he went, burning with anger, to his ship, in the company of Prince Theseus Philots, a mighty giant whom he had conquered in the Hesperant Isles, and taken from him sheep valued at their weight in gold, and thence called golden fleeces, and arriving in Greece, was highly welcomed by King Creon, Euriste- ous, and Amphitrion his supposed father, and ether kings and princes ; to whom, af- ter great feasting, having made his com- plaint of the wrong done him by Leome- don, they ail vowed to assist him in reveng- ing it, and thereupon raised 20,000 valiant men which soon embarked and by the way they sacked and burnt Parissa and Tenedos, wealthy cities belonging to the Trojans, and in a desperate battle overthrew Leome- don, and took his son Priamus prisoner ; on which Leomedon was obliged to retreat, and Hercules pursued so violently, beating down all before him, that he seized the gates of the city and let in the Greeks ere half the Trojans were entered, so that mis- erable cries and slaughter ensued; whereu- pon Leomedon seeing all lost, fled with Ex- ione,