That oft have quelled the courage of my foes, 
And eke dismay’d my neighbours arrogancy, 
Now yield to death, o’erlaid with crooked age, 
Devoid of strength and of their proper force, 
Even as the lusty cedar worn with years, 
That far abroad her dainty odor throws, 
Mongst all the daughters of proud Lebanon. 
This heart, my Lords, this near appalled heart, 
That was a terror to the bordering lands, 
A doeful scourge unto my neighbor Kings, 
Now by the weapons of unpartial death, 
Is clove asunder and bereft of life, 
As when the sacred oak with thunderbolts, 
Sent from the fiery circuit of the heavens, 
Sliding along the air’s celestial vaults, 
Is rent and cloven to the very roots. 
In vain, therefore, I strangle with this foe; 
Then welcome death, since God will have it so. 

ASSARACHUS. 
Alas, my Lord, we sorrow at your case, 
And grieve to see your person vexed thus; 
But what so ere the fates determined have, 
It lieth not in us to disannul, 
And he that would annihilate his mind, 
Soaring with Icarus too near the sun, 
May catch a fall with young Bellerophon. 
For when the fatal sisters have decreed 
To separate us from this earthly mould, 
No mortal force can countermand their minds: 
Then, worthy Lord, since there’s no way but one, 
Cease your laments, and leave your grievous moan. 

CORINEUS. 
Your highness knows how many victories, 
How many trophies I erected have 
Triumphantly in every place we came. 
The Grecian Monarch, warlike Pandrassus, 
And all the crew of the Molossians; 
Goffarius, the arm strong King of Gauls, 

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