That, as from hollow bustling winds, engenderd stormes arise,Simile.When dust doth chiefly clog the waies, which vp into the skiesThe wanton tempest rauisheth; begetting Night of Day;So came together both the foes: both Iusted to assay,And worke with quicke steele, eithers death. Mans fierce Corruptresse FightSet vp her bristles in the field, with lances long and light,Which thicke, fell foule on eithers face: the splendor of the steele,In new skowrd curets, radiant caskes, and burnisht shields, did seeleTh'assailers eyes vp. He sustaind, a huge spirit that was gladTo see that labour, or in soule, that stood not stricken sad.Thus these two disagreeing Gods, old Saturns mightie sonnes,Afflicted these heroique men, with huge oppressions.Ioue honouring Aeacides, (to let the Greeks still trieTheir want without him) would bestow, (yet still) the victorieOn Hector, and the Troian powre; yet for Aeacides,And honor of his mother Quee, great Goddesse of the seas,He would not let proude Ilion see, the Grecians quite destroid:And therefore, from the hoarie deepe, he sufferd so imploidGreat Neptune in the Grecian aid; who grieu'd for them, and storm'dExtremely at his brother Ioue. Yet both, one Goddesse form'd,And one soile bred: but Iupiter, precedence tooke in birth,And had moreThe Empire of Ioue exceeded Neptunes (saith Plut. vpon this place) because he was more an∣cint, and excel∣lent in knowledg and wisedom. And vpon this verse, viz. , &c. sets downe this his most worthy to be noted opinion: viz I thinke al∣so that the bles∣sednesse of eter∣nall life, which God enioyes is this: that by any pastime he for∣gets not notions presently appre∣bended; for other wise the know∣ledge & vnder∣stāding of things taken away; Im∣mortality shold not be lise, bt Time, &c. Plut∣de I side & Osi∣ride. knowledge: for which cause, the other came not forthOf his wet kingdome, but with care, of not being seene t'exciteThe Grecian host, and like a man, appeard, and made the fight.So these Gods made mens valours great; but equald them with warreAs harmefull, as their hearts were good; and stretcht those chaines as farreOn both sides as their lims could beare: in which they were inuolu'dPast breach, or loosing; that their knees, might therefore be dissolu'd.Then, though a halfe-gray man he were, Cretes soueraigne did exciteThe Greeks to blowes; and flew vpon, the Troians, euen to flight:For he, in sight of all the host, Othryoneus slew,That from Cabesus, with the fame, of those waes, thither drewHis new-come forces, and requir'd, without respect of dowre,Cassandra, fair'st of Priams race; assuring with his powre,A mightie labour: to expell, in their despite from TroyThe sons of Greece. The king did vow, (that done) he should enioyHis goodliest daughter. He, (in trust, of that faire purchase) fought,And at him threw the Cretan king, a alnce, that singl'd outThis great assumer; whom it strooke, iust in his nauils stead;His brazen curets helping nought, resignd him to the dead.Then did the conquerour exclaime, and thus insulted then:Othryoneus, I will praise, beyond all mortall men,Thy liuing vertues; if thou wilt, now perfect the braue vowThou mad'st to Priam, for the wife, he promisd to bestow.And where he should haue kept his word, there we assure thee here,To giue thee for thy Princely wife, the fairest, and most deare,Idomens insul∣tation on Othry∣ncus.Of our great Generals femall race, which from his Argiue hall,We all will waite vpon to Troy; if with our aids, and all,0