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 The Four Monarchies. 325

JVuma Pompilius.

"V TUMA Pompilius next chofe they King/

^ Held for his piet}^ fome facred thing, To yanus he that famous Temple built: Kept fhut in peace, fet^ ope when blood was fpilt; Religious Rites and Cuftomes inftituted, And Priefts and Flamines likewife he deputed, Their Augurs flrange, their geftures^ and attire, And veftal maids to keep the holy fire. The Nymph'' ui^geria this to him told, So to delude the people he was bold: Forty three years he rul'd with general praife, Accounted for a^ God in after dayes.

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ULLIUS Hojlilius was third Roman King, Who Martial difcipline in ufe did bring;

��War with the antient Albans he did wage, This ftrife to end fix brothers did ingage. Three call'd Horatii on the Romans fide, And Curiatii three Albans provide: The Romans conquer, th' other yield the da}^. Yet in' their Compact, after falfe the}^ play.

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