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 Th e Fo u r Mo n a rch ies. 315

Thele to recover, multers all his might,

And with his Son in Law will needs go tight ;^'

A mighty Navy rigVl, an Army flout,

With thefe he hopes to turn the world about:

Leaving AntigontLS his eldeft Son,

In his long abfence to rule Macedon.

Demetrius with fo many troubles met.

As Heaven and Earth againit him had been let;

Difafter on difafter him purfue,

His ftory feems a Fable more then true.

At laft he's ' taken and imprifoned

Within an Ifle that was with pleafures fed,

Injoj^'d what ere befeem'd his Royalt}^,

Only rellrained of his liberty:

After three years he died, left what he'd won,

In Greece unto Antigoiius his Son.

For his Pofterity unto this day.

Did ne're regain one foot in AJiay

His Body Seleucus fends to his Son, [181]

Whofe obfequies with wondrous pomp was done.

Next di'd the brave and noble Ptolemp,

Renown'd for bounty, valour, clemency,

Rich Egypt left, and what elfe he had won,

To Philadelphiis his more worthy Son.

Of the old Heroes^ now but two remain,

Seleucus and Lyjimackus thefe twain,

k The next eight lines are not in the first edition. i There was he.

J The next two lines are not in the first edition.

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