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Preferv'd their honour, us'd them bounteoufly/

Commands no man Ihould doe them injury:

And this to Alexander is more fame

Then that the Perjian King he overcame.

Two hundred eighty Greeks he loft in fight,

By too much heat, not wounds (as authors write)

No fooner had this Victor ^ won the field,

But all Phenicia to his pleafure yield.

Of which the Goverment he doth commit

Unto Parmenio of all moft fit.

Darius now lefs lofty "■ then before.

To Alexander writes he would reftore

Thofe mournfuU Ladies from Captivity,

For whom he offers him a ranfome high :

But down his haughty ftomach could not bring,

To give this Conquerour the Stile of King.

This Letter Alexander doth difdain.

And in fhort terms fends this reply again,

A King he was, and that not only fo,

But of Darius King, as he fhould know.

Next Alexander unto Tyre doth goe,

His valour and his vi6toryes they know:

To gain his love the Tyrians intend.

Therefore a crown and great Provifion fend,

Their prefent he receives with thankfullnefs,

Defires to ofter unto Hercules,

Prote6lor of their town, by whom defended, [132]

And from whom he ^ lineally defcended.

y courteoufly. ^ Captaine. « more humble. b alfo.

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