Choice above all, of Ptolemy she makes, And now he hopes," he's order'd all fo well, And by their means who thought of nothing lefs, i Then vengeance juft, against them to exprefs; Now blood was paid with blood for what was done By cruel Father, Mother, cruel Son:/ & took. h thinks. ¿ the fame. j After this the first edition has, Who did erect their cruelty in guilt, And wronging innocents whose blood they spilt, Philip and Olympias both were flain, Aridæus and his Queen by flaughters ta'ne; Two other children by Olympias kill'd, And Cleopatra's blood, now likewife fpill'd, If Alexander was not poyfoned, Yet in the flower of's age, he must lie dead. His wife and fons then flain by this Caffander, Thus may we hear, and fear, and ever say, Thefe Captains now the ftile of Kings do take, [178] k Demetrius firft the royal ftile affum'd, By his Example all the reft prefum'd. Doth promife liberty to Athens State; With Arms and with provision stores them well, Not like a King, but like fome God they feign'd; Their feveral Battels and their feveral fate," Near Ephefus, each bringing all his might, And he that Conquerour shall now remain, k there's. Instead of the next seven lines, the first edition has, " this. ⚫ their. To do as he, the reft full foon prefumes, To Athens then he goes, is entertain'd, "The next two lines are not in the first edition. Of Afia the Lordship. This day 'twixt these two Kings ends all the ftrife, For here Antigonus loft rule and life: Nor to his Son, did e're one foot remain Of those vaft Kingdomes,' he did fometimes gain. Hopes to find fuccours in his miferies; ' But they adoring in profperity, Now fhut their gates in his adverfity: t He forely griev'd at this his defperate State [179] Is for this fresh young Lady quite undone; The eld❜ft inrag'd did play the Vipers part, And with his Sword did run her through the heart:" Rather then Philips race fhould longer live, a He whom she gave his life her death fhall give. Whose daughter he not long before had ta'ne;" For blood, which was decre'd that he should spill, That Seleucus holds Afia grievs him fore, Those Countryes large his Father got before. y did pierce his mothers heart, b foon. child muft. a must. [180] cunto wife, he'd newly ta'n. d Instead of this and the three preceding lines, the first edition has, The youngest by Demetrius kill'd in fight, Who took away his now pretended right: e is. f Yea. The next two lines are not in the first edition. These to recover, mufters all his might, And with his Son in Law will needs go fight;" A mighty Navy rig'd, an Army stout, With these he hopes to turn the world about: In his long abfence to rule Macedon. Demetrius with fo many troubles met, h As Heaven and Earth against him had been set; His fstory seems a Fable more then true. At laft he's taken and imprisoned Within an Ifle that was with pleafures fed, Injoy'd what ere befeem'd his Royalty, Only restrained of his liberty: After three years he died, left what he'd won, In Greece unto Antigonus his Son. For his Pofterity unto this day, Did ne're regain one foot in Afia;' His Body Seleucus fends to his Son, Whofe obfequies with wondrous pomp was done. Next di'd the brave and noble Ptolemp, [181] Renown'd for bounty, valour, clemency, Rich Egypt left, and what else he had won, To Philadelphus his more worthy Son. The next eight lines are not in the first edition. i There was he. |