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Per lasperum Heyvvodum Oxoniensem.
The first Tra
By Iasper Heywood studient in Oxford.
e boe rather for his sake to dedicate this simple worke vnto your honour, as well to signifie the poore good wyll of a scholler, as also to render to your honor most hu
IUno the wife and sister of Iupiter, hatyng his bastarde broode, cometh down from heauen, complaining of all his iniuries done to her, deuising also by what despite she maye vexe his base sonne Hercules. And hauyng by experience proued, no toiles to be too hard for him, fin
SAPPHICI HEN
Anapaestici, Adonii duo.
ISyster of the thunderer, (for nowe that name alone remaynes to me) Ioue euermore as though deuorste and gone,
And eyther his beegiled hookes dothe bayte, or els beholds and feeles the pray from hye with paysed hande.
To muche Alcides thou with stomack stout the sory sprights of hell dooste haste to see. with course prefixt the fates ar broght about to none once warnd to come, may respyte be
Not there of Tyndars stocke yt double brood two starrs the feareful ships do aide & guide. with gulph ful blak doth stat slothful flood and whe
Breake fate by force: & let the syght of daye to sory sprights of hell apparentlye, and porche vnpast shew way to gods aboue. the cruel lords of sprights with plesant song
WIth my reue
Sonne fyrste thy handes flowyng with blouddy slaughter, and the deathe of enmye puryfye.
O feruent Titan: bothe thy settyngs loe and rysyng, hath Alcides seene with thee: & known likewise he hath thy howse
All mankynde loe that dredfull is to dye, thou doost cot heauy slepe opprest,
With empty hand, his armes owt castit south wind gre
Now strooken let with Hercules his hands thy bosoms sou• world alow wer wo
His arrowe strong long hanged vp on hye, & quiuers light, ye cruel strypes now smyght on his firce back, his shoulders strot knots full harde his brests loade al about. let euen his weapo
Not you poore babes mates of your fathers wt cruel wou
Are taught to turn wt wepo
With steady hand to paise se• saue the
IMPRINTED AT London by Henrye Sutton dvvelling in pater noster rovve at the signe of the blacke Boy.
ANNO DOMINI. M. D. LXI.