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The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Castor and Pollvx

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4438202The Crowne of All Homers Workes — To Castor and PollvxGeorge ChapmanHomer

TO CASTOR
AND
POLLVX.

Castor and Pollux, (the Tyndarides)Sweete Muse illustrate; that their EssencesFetch from the high forms of Olympian Ioue;And were the faire fruits of bright Leda's Loue.Which shee produc't, beneath the sacred shadeOf steepe Taygetus; being subdu'd; and madeTo serue th' Affections of the Thunderer.And so, all Grace to you; whom all Auer,(For skill in Horses, and their Manage geuen)To be the brauest Horsemen, vnder Heauen.