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Title: The Twelve Labours of Hercules, Son of Jupiter & Alcmena

Author: Anonymous

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Language: English

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THE
TWELVE LABOURS
OF
_HERCULES_,
SON OF
_JUPITER & ALCMENA_.

LONDON:

Published by Didier and Tebbett, at the
Juvenile Library of English, French,
and Italian Books, and Repository
of Instructive Games, No. 75,
St. James's Street.
1808.
London.

Published by Didier & Tebbett, 75, St. James' Street;

Price, Plain 1s. Coloured 1s. 6d.

[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE.

Hercules in his Cradle Strangles two Serpents

The Twelve
LABOURS OF HERCULES,
_Son of_
JUPITER and ALCMENA.]

1

The Nemaean Lion.

[Illustration]

By Juno's hate urged on, Alcmena's Son,
At sixteen years his noble toils begun.
Nemaea's dreadful Lion first he sought,
The savage slew & to Eurystheus brought,
From his huge sides his shaggy spoils he tore,
Around him threw, & e'er in triumph wore.

2

The Lernaean Hydra.

[Illustration]

On Lerna's pest th' undaunted Hero rushes,
With massy club her hundred heads he crushes,
In vain. One crush'd, two hissing heads arise,
Till good Iolas to each wound app