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 3i6 Anne Bradjl reefs Works.

Muft needs go try their fortune and their might,

And ^o Lyjimachus was flain in fight;

'Twas no fmall joy unto Scleuctis breaft,

That now he had out-Hved all the rell:

Poffeilion of Europe thinks to take,

And fo himfelf the only Monarch make;

Whilft with thefe hopes in Greece he did remain,

He was by Ptolemy Cera mm s flain.

The fecond Son of the firft Ptolemy^

Who for Rebellion unto him did fly;

Seleucus was a '' Father and a friend.

Yet by him had this mofl: unworthy end.

Thus with thefe. Kingly Captains have wx done,

A little now how the Succefl^ion run,

Antigonus, Seleucus and Cajjfaiider^

With Plolei7iy, reign'd after Alexander ;

CaJfande7'-\ Sons foon after's death were flain,

So three SuccelTors only did remain:

Antigon7is his Kingdomes lofl; and life,

Unto Seleucus, Author of that ftrife.

His Son Demetrius, all Cajfanders gains.

And his pofterity, the fame retains;

Demetrius Son was call'd Antigonus, [i^^]

And his again was nam'd ^ Demetrius.

I muft let pals thofe many Battels fought.

Betwixt'" thofe Kings, and noble Pyrrhus ftout,

And his Son Alexander of Epire,

Whereby immortal honour they acquire;

k as. i aeaine, alio. '« Between.

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