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His cunning hand gan to his wounds to lay
And all things els the which his art did teach:
Which having feene, from thence arose away
The mother of dredd Darknesse, and let stay
Aveugles fonne there in the leaches cure;
And bake retourning took her wonted way,
To ronne her timely race, whilst Phoebus pure,
In westerne waves his weary wagon did recure.

XLV.

The falfe Dueffa, leaving noyous Night,
Returnd to stately palace of dame Pryde,
Where when she came, the found the Faery knight
Departed thence; albee (his woundes wyde
• Not thoroughly heald) unready were to ryde.
Good cause he had to hasten thence away;
For on a day his wary dwarfe had spyde
Where in a dungeon deep huge nombers lay
Of caytive wretched thralls, that wayled night and
day;

XLVI.

A ruefull fight as could be feen with eie;
Of whom he learned had in fecret wife
The hidden cause of their captivitie;
How, mortgaging their lives to Covetife;
Through waftfull pride and wanton riotise,
They were by law of that proud tyranneffe,
Provokt with wrath, and Envyes false furmise,
Condemned to that dongeon mercileffe,
Where they should live in wo, and dye in wretch-
edneffe.

XLVII.

There was that great proud king of Babylon,
That would compell all nations to adore,

And him as onely God to call upon,

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Whose case whenas the carefull dwarfe had tould,
And made enfample of their mournfull fight

Till through celestiall doome, thrown out of dore, Unto his maifter, he no lenger would

Into an oxe he was transformd of yore:
There also was king Crafus, that enhaunst
His hart too high through his great richesse store;
And proud Antiochus, the which advanst

His curfed hand gainst God, and on his altares
daunft:

XLVIII

And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
That first the world with fword and fire warrayd;
And after him old Ninus far did pas
In princely pomp, of all the world obayd:
There alfo was that mightie monarch layd
Low under all, yet above all in pride,
That name of native fyre did fowle upbrayd,
And would as Ammon's fonne be magnifide,

There dwell in perill of like painefull plight,
But early rofe, and ere that dawning light
Discovered had the world to heaven wyde,
He by a privy posterne tooke his flight,
That of no envious eyes he mote be spyde;
For doubtleffe death enfewd if any him defcryde.

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Scarfe could he footing find in that fowle way,
For many corfes, like a great lay-stall,
Of murdred men which therein ftrowed lay,
Without remorfe of decent funerall,

Which al through that great princeffe pride did fall,
And came to fhamefull end: and them befyde,
Forth ryding underneath the caftell wall,

A donghill of dead carcases he spyde,

Till fcornd of God and man a shamefull death he The dreadfull spectacle of that fad house of Pryde.

dide.

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