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In [1]Pelions bosome; bearing him to ground:Whom sad death seas'd; his soule flew through his wound.[2]Sentlæus next, Embasichytros slew;His heart through thrusting: then [3]Artophagus threwHis lance at [4]Polyphon; and strooke him quiteThrough his midd-bellie: downe he fell vpright:And from his fayre limms, took his soule her flight.[5]Lymnocharis beholding PolyphonThus done to death; did with as round a stoneAs that the mill turnes; Troglodytes woundNeare his mid-neck; ere he his onset found:Whose eyes, sad darknes seas'd. [6]Lychenor castA flying dart off, and his ayme so plac'tVpon Lymnocharis; that [7] Sure he thoughtThe wound he wisht him: nor vntruely wroughtThe dire successe; for through his Lyuer flewThe fatall lance; which when [8]Crambaphagus knew;Downe the deepe waues neare shore; he, diuing, fled;But fled not fate so; the sterne enimie fedDeath with his life in diuing: neuer moreThe ayre he drew in; his Vermilian goreStaind all the waters; and along the shoreHe lay extended; his fat entrailes laie(By his small guts impulsion) breaking waieOut at his wound. [9]Lymnisius, neare the shoreDestroid Tyroglyphus: which frighted soreThe soule of [10]Calaminth; seeing comming on(For wreake) [11]Pternoglyphus: who got him gon
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- ↑ Mud-borne.
- ↑ Beet-devourer.
- ↑ The great bread-eater.
- ↑ The great Noise maker, shrill or bigg-voic'd.
- ↑ The lake-louer.
- ↑ Qui lambit culinaria vasa.
- ↑ Τιτύσκομαι intentissime dirigo, ut certum ictum inferam.
- ↑ The cabbage-eater.
- ↑ Paludis incola. Lake-liuer.
- ↑ Qui in calaminthâ, herbâ palustri habitat.
- ↑ Bacon-eater.