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 1 86 Anne BradJlreeVs Worhs.

Which in the midft of this brave Town was plac'd,

Continuing till Xerxes it defac'd:

Whole ftately top above ' the Clouds did rife.

From whence Allroloijers oft view'd the Skies.

This to defcribe in each particular,

A ftru6ture rare I fliould but rudely marre.

Her Gardens, Bridges, Arches, mounts and fpires

All eyes that law, or Ears that hear admires,

In Shinai' plain on the Euphratian flood

This wonder of the world, this Babel flood.

An expedition to the Eajl flie made

Staurobates, his Country to invade:-'

Her Army of four millions did conlift,

Each may believe it as his fancy lift.

Her Camels, Chariots, Gallyes in fuch number,

As puzzles beft Hiftorians to remember;

But this is wonderful,'^ of all thole men.

They fay, but twenty e're came back agen.

The River yudas^ fwept them half away, [74]

The reft Staurobates in fight did flay;

This was laft progrefs of this might}^ Queen,

Who in her Country never more was feen.

The Poets feign'd her turn'd into a Dove,

Leaving the world to Venus foard above:

Which made the Affyrians many a day,

A Dove within their Enfigns to difplay:

Forty two years fhe reign'd, and then fhe di'd

But by what means we are not certifi'd.

i beyond. J Great King Sfnurobirtes. for to invade.

/f marvelous. / Indus.

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