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 Behold like happes of other folkes, and this mischaunce of thyne Shall greeve thee lesse. Would God examples (so they were not myne) Myght comfort thee. But myne perchaunce may comfort thee. If thou In talk by hap hast heard of one Hippolytus ere now, That through his fathers lyght beleefe, and stepdames craft was slayne, It will a woonder seeme to thee, and I shall have much payne To make thee to beleeve the thing. But I am very hee. The daughter of Pasyphae in vayne oft tempting mee My fathers chamber to defyle, surmysde mee to have sought The thing that shee with al her hart would fayne I should have wrought. And whither it were for feare I should her wickednesse bewray, Or else for spyght bycause I had so often sayd her nay, Shee chardgd mee with hir owne offence. My father by and by Condemning mee, did banish mee his Realme without cause whye. And at my going like a fo did ban me bitterly. To Pitthey Troyzen outlawelike my chariot streight tooke I. My way lay hard uppon the shore of Corinth. Soodeinly The sea did ryse, and like a mount the wave did swell on hye, And seemed huger for to growe in drawing ever nye, And roring clyved in the toppe. Up starts immediatly A horned bullocke from amid the broken wave, and by The brest did rayse him in the ayre, and at his nostrills and His platter mouth did puffe out part of sea uppon the land. My servants harts were sore afrayd. But my hart musing ay Uppon my wrongfull banishment, did nought at all dismay. My horses setting up theyr eares and snorting wexed shye, And beeing greatly flayghted with the monster in theyr eye, Turnd downe to sea: and on the rockes my wagon drew. In vayne I stryving for to hold them backe, layd hand uppon the reyne All whyght with fome, and haling backe lay almost bolt upryght. And sure the feercenesse of the steedes had yeelded to my might, But that the wheele that ronneth ay about the Extree round, Did breake by dashing on a stub, and overthrew to ground. Then from the Charyot I was snatcht the brydles beeing cast About my limbes. Yee myght have seene my sinewes sticking fast Uppon the stub: my gutts drawen out alyve: my members, part Still left uppon the stump, and part foorth harryed with the cart: