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 The Foiu- Monai'chies. 227

This 'twixt the mountains lyes (half Acre wide)

That pleafant Thejfaly from Greece divide

Two dayes and nights, a fight they there maintain,

Till twenty thoufand Perjians fell '' down flain;

And all that Army then difmaid, had fled.

But that a Fugitive difcovered.

How fome^ might o're the mountains go about,

And wound the backs of thofe brave '' warriors ilout

They thus behem'd with multitude of Foes,

Laid on more fiercely their deep mortal blows.

None cries for quarter, nor yet feeks to run;

But on their ground they die each Mothers Son.

O noble Greeks, how now degenerate,

Where is the valour of your ancient State .^

When as one thoufand could a" million daunt,

Alas ! it is Leonades you want.

This fhameful vi6lory coft Xerxes dear.

Among the relf, two brothers he loft there;

And as at Land, fo he at Sea was croft,

Four hundred ftately Ships by ftorms was loll;

Of Vefl^els fmall almofl; innumerable.

The Harbours to contain them was not able,^

Yet thinking to out-match his Foes at Sea,

Enclof'd their Fleet i'th' ftreight of Eubea:

But they as fortunate at™ Sea as Land, [lo?]

In this ftreight, as the other firmly ftand._

»" falls. ■s part. '' bold. « fome Millions.

^ Them to receive, the Harbour was not able; "^ valiant by-

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