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 With that same litle plot of grounde whereon thy corse is layde, In steade of all the large fat fieldes which late thou didst possesse. And with that word he left him dead. Perseus to redresse This slaughter and this spightfull taunt, streight snatched out the Dart That sticked in the fresh warme wound, and with an angrie hart Did send it at the throwers head: the Dart did split his nose Even in the middes, and at his necke againe the head out goes: So that it peered both the wayes. Whiles fortune doth support And further Persey thus, he killes (but yet in sundrie sort) Two brothers by the mother: t'one callde Clytie, tother Dane. For on a Dart through both his thighes did Clytie take his bane: And Danus with another Dart was striken in the mouth. There died also Celadon, a Gypsie of the South: And so did bastard Astrey too, whose mother was a Jew: And sage Ethion well foreseene in things that should ensew, But utterly beguilde as then by Birdes that aukly flew. King Cepheyes harnessebearer callde Thoactes lost his life, And Agyrt whom for murdring late his father with a knife The worlde spake shame of. Nathelesse much more remainde behinde Than was dispatched out of hand: for all were full in minde To murder one. The wicked throng had sworne to spend their blood Against the right, and such a man as had deserved good. A tother side (although in vaine) of mere affection stood The Father and the Motherinlaw, and eke the heavie bride, Who filled with their piteous playnt the Court on everie side. But now the clattring of the swordes and harnesse at that tide With grievous grones and sighes of such as wounded were or dide, Did raise up such a cruell rore that nothing could be heard. For fierce Bellona so renewde the battell afterward, That all the house did swim in blood. Duke Phyney with a rout Of moe than of a thousand men environd round about The valiant Persey all alone. The Dartes of Phyneys bande Came thicker than the Winters hayle doth fall upon the lande, By both his sides, his eyes and eares. He warely thereupon Withdrawes, and leanes his backe against a huge great arche of stone: And being safe behind, he settes his face against his foe Withstanding all their fierce assaultes. There did assaile him thoe