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 On sheepehookes, and the Ploughmen on the handles of their Plough, Beholding them, amazed were: and thought that they that through The Aire could flie were Gods. And now did on their left side stand The Iles of Samos, Junos land: And on their right, Lebinthos and the faire Calydna fraught With store of honie: when the Boy a frolicke courage caught To flie at randon. Whereupon forsaking quight his guide, Of fond desire to flie to Heaven, above his boundes he stide. And there the nerenesse of the Sunne which burnd more hote aloft, Did make the Wax (with which his wings were glewed) lithe and soft. As soone as that the Wax was molt, his naked armes he shakes, And wanting wherewithall to wave no helpe of Aire he takes. But calling on his father loud he drowned in the wave: And by this chaunce of his those Seas his name for ever have. His wretched Father (but as then no father) cride in feare: O Icarus, O Icarus, where art thou? tell me where That I may finde thee, Icarus. He saw the fethers swim Upon the waves, and curst his Art that so had spighted him. At last he tooke his bodie up and laid it in a grave, And to the Ile the name of him then buried in it gave. And as he of his wretched sonne the corse in ground did hide, The cackling Partrich from a thicke and leavie thorne him spide, And clapping with his wings for joy aloud to call began. There was of that same kinde of Birde no mo but he as than. In times forepast had none bene seene. It was but late anew Since he was made a bird: and that thou, Daedalus, mayst rew: For whyle the world doth last thy shame shall thereupon ensew. For why thy sister, ignorant of that which after hapt, Did put him to thee to be taught full twelve yeares old and apt To take instruction. He did marke the middle bone that goes Through fishes, and according to the paterne tane of those He filed teeth upon a piece of yron one by one And so devised first the Saw where erst was never none. Moreover he two yron shankes so joynde in one round head, That opening an indifferent space, the one point downe shall tread, And tother draw a circle round. The finding of these things, The spightfull heart of Daedalus with such a m lice stings,