The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Lyon-Hearted Hercules
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TO
LYON-HEARTED
Hercules.
llcides, (Force-fullest of all the BroodeOf Men, enforc't with neede of earthie foode,)My Muse shal memorise; the son of Ioue;Whom, in faire-seated Thebs (commixt in loueWith great Heauens sable-cloude-assembling state)Alcmena bore to him. And who (in dateOf daies forepast) through all the Sea was sentAnd Earths inernarable Continent,To Acts, that King Eurystheus had decreede.Did many a Petulant, and Imperious DeedeHimselfe; and therefore, suffer'd many a Toile.Yet now inhabites the illustrious Soile Of white Olympus; and Delights his lifeWith still young Hebe; his well-anckled wife.Haile, King; and Sonne of Ioue; vouchsafe thou MeVirtue; and her Effect, Felicitie.