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 312 Anne BradJireeVs Works.

Thus may we hear, and fear, and ever fay,

That hand is righteous ftill which doth repay.

Thefe Captains now the ftile of Kings do take, [178J

For to their Crowns theirs^ none can Title make;^

Demetrius firft the royal flile alTum-d,

By his Example all the reft prefum'd.

Antigonus himfelf to ingratiate,

Doth promife liberty to Athens State;

With Arms and with provifion ftores them well,

The better 'gainft Caffaiider to rebel.

Demetrius thether goes, is entertain'd

Not like a King, but like fome God they feign'd;

Moft grofly bale was their '" great Adulation,

Who Incenfe burnt, and offered oblation:

Thefe Kings afrefti fall to their wars again,

Dejnetrius of Ptolemy doth gain.

'Twould be an endlefs Story to relate

Their feveral Battels and their feveral fate,"

Their fights by Sea, their victories by Land,

How fome when down, ftraight got the upper hand

Antigonus and Scleuciis then fight

Near Ephefus, each bringing all his " might.

And he that Conquerour fhall now remain.

The Lordftiip of all AJia^ fhall retain;

k there's.

^ Instead of the next seven lines, the first edition has, —

Demetrius is firft, that fo aflumes,

To do as he, the reft full loon prefumes.

To Athens then he goes, is entertain'd, nt this. « The next two lines are not in the first edition.

o their. / Of AJta the Lordlhip.

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