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 264 Anne Bradjireefs Works.

To this ftout Alexander gives no ear,

No though Parmenio plead, yet will not hear;

Which had he done, (perhaps) his fame he'd kept,

Nor Infamy had wak'd, when he had flept.

For his unlimited profperity

Him boundlefs made in vice and Cruelty.

Thus to Darius he writes back again,

The Firmament, two Suns cannot contain.

Two Monarchyes on Earth cannot abide,

Nor yet two Monarchs in one world refide;

The affli6led King finding him let to jar.

Prepares againft to morrow, for the war,

Parmenio, Alexander, wifht that night.

To force his Camp, fo vanquifh them by flight.^

For tumult in the nighf^ doth caufe moft dread, [137]

And weaknefs of a Foe is covered,

But he difdain'd to fteal a victory:

The Sun fhould witnefs of his valour be.

And carelefs in his bed, next morne he lyes.

By Captains twice is call'd before hee'l rife,

The Armyes joyn'd a while, the Perjians fight.

And fpilt the Greeks foine bloud before their flight

But long they flood not e're they're forc'd to run.

So made an end. As foon as w^ell begun.^

Forty five thoufand Alexander had.

But is not known what flaughter here was made,

c fo put them all to flight; d dark.

e Instead of this and the five preceding lines, the first edition has, — Both Armies meet, Greeks fight, the Perjtans run. So make an end, before thej well begun ;

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