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CANT. 7. (Book 7)
Adonia goes t'auenge her Knight,
After her charming nought preuailes:
Deogin seeing Erona light,
Amidst the waues his chance bewailes:
Erona on the sea doth float,
Chang'd by a charme into a boat.
WHen in th' Aegaeum of thy wandring dayes,
Fortune full softly fils thy swelling saile,
Let no Circaeas hinder quite thy wayes,
Nor let her cups against thy heart preuaile,
Then vertue of thy spotted soule decayes,
Blinded in worldly pleasures clowdy vaile:
This pleasing draught shall so bewitch thy will,
Well mayst thou see the good, but doe the ill.
Which doth appeare in this most wretched wight,
Who after Aidon had their Captaine slaine,
Returneth to the dregges of fond delight,
Hoping t'haue found their carpet knight againe,
And bring her ancient customes new to light:
But as she sought him with incessant paine,
At last a mangled carcasse she had spide,
With skarlet blood and filthie gore bedide.
As Peleus daughters, when they saw their sire
Vanisht from earth into a gastly shade,
Their raging thoughts rapt vp in furies gire,
Curst heauen and earth, and that life-loosing blade,
Damning that vgly witch to Orcus fire,* 1.1
And then themselues which first the motion made:
So doth this furnace burning hellish flame,
Breath curses gainst great heau'ns fate-ruling name.