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 The Four Monarchies. 307

All Perjia now Antigonns doth gain/

And Mafter of the Treafure fole remain:'

Then with Seleiictis flreight at odds doth fall,

And he for aid to Piolomy doth call,

The Princes all begin now to envy

Aiitigoims., he growing up fo high;

Fearing his force,^ and what might hap e're long, [174]

Enters into a Combination ftrong,

Seleucus, Ptolemy, Cajfa^ider joynes,

Lyjimachus to make a fourth combines:

AntigoiiMS delirous of the Greeks,

To make Caffander odious to them feeks.

Sends forth his declarations near and far,^

And clears what caufe he had to make this war,'"

Cajfanders outrages at large doth tell.

Shews his ambitious pra6tifes as well."

The mother of their King to death he'd put,

His wife and fon in prifon clofe had fhut:

And aiming now to make himfelf a king.

And that fome title he might feem to bring,

Theffalonica he had newly wed,

Daughter to Philip their renowned head:

Had built and call'd a City by his name.

Which none e're did, but thofe of royal fame:

i So Eu7nenes of deftiny mull: tafte.

Antigonus^ all Perjta now gains, j he remains ; k their ftate, i declaration from a farre,

'« And fliews what caufe they had to take up warre.

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