e of Greekish eloquence:
Proud _Capadocia_ sawe her King captiu'd,
(And _Dolabella_ vanting in the spoyles.
Of slayne _Trebonius_) fall as springing tree,
Seated in louely _Tempes_ pleasant shades:
Whom beuteous spring with blossoms braue hath deckt,
And sweete _Fauonia_ manteled all in greene,
By winters rage doth loose his flowry pride,
And hath each twigg bar'd by northerne winds. 2170
Thus from the conquest of proud _Palestine_,
Hether in triumph haue we march'd along,
Making our force-commaunding rule to stretch,
From faire _Euphrates_ christall flowing waues
Vnto the Sea which yet weepes _Io's_ death,
Slayne by great _Hercules_ repenting hand,
_Bru._ Of all the places by my sword subdued,
Pitty of thee poore _Zanthus_ moues me most;
Thrise hast thou ben beseeged by thy foe,
And thrise to saue thy liberty hast felt 2180
The fatall flames of thine owne cruell hand.
First being beseeg'd by _Harpalus_ the _Mede_,
The sterne performer of proud _Cyrus_ wrath:
Next when the _Macedonian Phillips_ sonne,
Did rayse his engines gainst thy battered walls,
Proud _Zanthus_ that did scorne to beare the yoake,
That all the world was forced to sustaine,
Last when that I my selfe did guirt thy walls,
With troopes of high resolued _Roman_ hearts,
Rather then thou wouldest yeeld to _Brutus_ sword, 2190
Or stayne the mayden honour of thy Towne,
Did'st sadly fall as proud _Numantia_.
Scorning to yeeld to conquering _Scipios_ power.
_Cas._ And now to thee _Phillipi_, are wee come,
Whose fields must twise feele _Roman_ cruelty,
And flowing blood like to _Daercean_ playnes,
When proud _Eteocles_ on his foaming steede,
Rides in his fury through the _Argean_ troopes,
Now making great _AErastus_ giue him way,
Now beating back _Tidaeus_ puissant might: 2200
The ground not dry'd from sad _Pharsalian_ blood,
Will now bee turned to a purple lake:
And bleeding heapes and mangled bodyes slayne,
Shall make such hills as shall surpasse in height
The Snowy Alpes and aery _Appenines_,
_Titi._ A Scout brought word but now that he descryd,
Warlike _Anthonius_ and young _Caesars_ troopes,
Marching in fury ouer _Thessalian_ playnes.
As great _Gradinus_ when in angry moode,
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