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 298 Anne Bradjl reefs Works.

But that her hufband ferve for fupplement,

To warm his^ feat, was never her intent.

She knew her birth-right gave her Macedon,

Grand-child to him who once fat on that throne

Who was Perdiccas, Philips eldeft ^ brother,

She daughter to his fon, who had no other/

Pythons commands,^ as oft fhe countermands;

What he appoints, fhe purpofely withflands.

He wearied out at hift would needs be gone,

Relign'd his place, and fo let all alone:

In's room^ the fouldiers chofe Antipater,

Who vext the Queen more then the other far."

From Macedon to Aha he came.

That he might fettle matters in the fame.

He plac'd, difplac'd, control'd rufd as he lift, [167]

And this no man durft queftion or refift;

For all the nobles of King ^ Alexander

Their bonnets vail'd to him as chief Commander.

P the. ? elder.

^ After this the first edition has, —

Her mother Cyna fitter to Alexander, Who had an Armj, like a great Commander. Ceria the Phrigian Queen for to withftand, And in a Battell Hew her hand to hand ; Her Daughter Ihe inftrudled in that Art, Which made her now begin to plaj her part;

' She ever. t flead.

w The next two lines are not in the first edition. f Princes of great.

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