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                the Destruction of Troy.                     9

and as stately as before; when such was his adverse fortune, occasioned by his ill tem- per, that the same Hercules who had before destroyed it, sailing by the Sigeum Port, leading to the city in search of adventures. was driven in, together with Jason and many noble Greeks, by stress of weather; and going on shore to refresh themselves, desired victuals for their money, but were denied by the king’s strict command, who from the battlements had beheld their ships steering into the harbour. This unmanly inhospitality greatly angered the victorious Hercules, and his noble companions, so that they vowed a cruel revenge, saying, If they ended their voyage safely from Col- chos, Isle, they would once again level the city with the ground ; and so departed, stung with anger and a thirst of speedy re- venge.

Having killed the wakeful dragon, and loaded their ships with the golden apples in he Hesperian Orchard, kept by a troop of nymphs, daughters to the Sun, they return- ed to Greece, and raised a powerful army, commanded in chief by Hercules, and un- der him king Telamon Ajax, next Castor and Pollux, brothers to fair Helen of Greece, of whom we shall largely speak hereafter and many others of great renown, who sailed, with a prosperous wind into the Sigeum Port before Troy, bringing great terror