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 232 A)uie Bradjlreefs Works.

With loaden heart unto the King he goes,

Tells as he could his unexpreffed woes;

But for his deep complaints and fhowres of tears,

His brothers recompence was nought but jears;

The grieved prince finding nor right, nor love,

To Badria his houfhold did remove.

His brother fent foon after him a crew,^

Which him and his moft barbaroufly there flew:

Unto fuch height did grow his cruelty,

Of life no man had leaft fecurity.

At lafl his Uncle did his death confpire,

And for that end his Eunuch he did hire;

Who privately him '' fmother'd in his bed.

But yet by fearch he was found murthered;

Then Artabamis" hirer of this deed,

That from fufpition he might be fre'd;

Accus'd Darius Xerxes eldeft Son,

To be the Author of the crime " was done.

And by his craft orderM the matter lb, [m]

That the Prince '" innocent to death did -^ goe :

But in fhort time this wickednefs was known.

For which he died, and not he alone,

But all his Family was likewife flain:

Such Jufhice in the Perjian Court did reign.^'

The eldeft fon thus im maturely dead,

The fecond was inthron'd in's fathers ftead.

■f His wicked brother, after ient a crew,

t Which wretch, him privately. « The Arfacanus. ^' deed.

V poor. X mutt. y Such Juftice tlien, in Per/ia did remain,

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