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 250 Anne Bradji reefs Works.

Whofe Wars, and loffes we may better tell,

In Alexander''?, reign who did him quell,

How from the top of worlds felicity,

He fell to depth of greateft mifery.

Whofe honours, treafures, pleafures had fhort ftay,

One deluge came and fwept them all away.

And in the fixth year of his haplefs reign.

Of all did fcarce his winding Sheet retain;

And laft, a fad Cataftrophe to end.

Him to the grave did Traitor Bejfiis fend.

That Ion, and father, both were mufthered By one Bagoas, an Eunuch (as is fed.) Thus learned Petnble* whom we niay not flight, But as before doth (well read) Raleigh write, And he that ftory reads, fhall often find ; That feverall men, will have their feverall mind ; Yet in thefe differences, we may behold ; With our judicious learned Knight to hold.
 * See Introduction.

��The End of the Perjian Monarchy.

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