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 The Four Mofiarchics. 247

��Don us Ochjts.

/^CliUS a wicked and Rebellious foil

^-^ Succeeds in th' throne, his father being gone.

Two of his brothers in his Fathers dayes

(To his great grief) mofh fubtilly he flayes:

And being King, commands thole that remain,

Of brethren and of kindred to be flain.

Then raifes forces, conquers Egypt land.

Which in rebellion lixt}^ years did Hand:

And in the twenty third ofs cruel raign

Was by his Eunuch the proud Bagoas llain."

Forty three years he rules, then turns to duft, As all the mighty ones, have done, and mult : But this of him is worth the memory. He was the Matter of good Neheinie.

w Darius Ochus.

/^~^Reat Artaxerxes dead, Ockiis fucceeds,

^""^ Of whom no Record's extant of his deeds;

Was it becaufe the Grecians now at war,

Made Writers work at home, they fought not far?

Or dealing with the Perjian^ now no more

Their Adts recorded not, as heretofore?

Or elfe, perhaps the deeds of Perjian Kings

In after wars were burnt, 'mongft other things?

That three and twenty years he reign'd I finde.

The reft is but conjecture of my minde.

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