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nd now in ship of Pagasa the Mynies cut the seas. And leading under endlesse night his age in great disease Of scarcitie was Phiney seene, and Boreas sonnes had chaste Away the Maidenfaced foules that did his victels waste. And after suffring many things in noble Jasons band, In muddie Phasis gushing streame at last they went aland. There while they going to the King demaund the golden fleece Brought thither certaine yeares before by Phryxus out of Greece, And of their dreadfull labors wait an answere to receive: Aeëtas daughter in hir heart doth mightie flames conceyve. And after strugling verie long, when reason could not win The upper hand of rage: she thus did in hir selfe begin: In vaine, Medea, doste thou strive: some God what ere he is   Against thee bendes his force. For what a wondrous thing is this? Is any thing like this which men doe terme by name of Love? For why should I my fathers hestes esteeme so hard above All measure? sure in very deede they are too hard and sore. Why feare I lest yon straunger whome I never saw before Should perish? what should be the cause of this my feare so great? Unhappie wench (and if thou canst) suppresse this uncouth heat That burneth in thy tender brest: and if so be I coulde, A happie turne it were, and more at ease then be I shoulde. But now an uncouth maladie perforce against my will Doth hale me. Love persuades me one, another thing my skill. The best I see and like: the worst I follow headlong still. Why being of the royall bloud so fondly doste thou rave, Upon a straunger thus to dote, desiring for to have An husband of another world? at home thou mightest finde A lover meete for thine estate on whome to set thy minde. And yet it is but even a chaunce if he shall live or no: God graunt him for to live. I may without offence pray so, Although I lovde him not: for what hath Jason trespast me? Who woulde not pitie Jasons youth onlesse they cruell be? What creature is there but his birth and prowesse might him move?