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Title:  Several poems compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse, and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year, together with an exact epitome of the three by a gentlewoman in New-England.
Author: Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.
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Arsames or Arses,Arsames plac'd now in his fathers stead,By him that late his father murthered.Some write that Arsames was Ohus brother,Inthron'd by Bagoas in the room of th' other:But why his brother 'fore his son succeedsI can no reason give, 'cause none I read.His brother; as tis said, long since was slain,And scarce a Nephew left that now might reign:What acts he did time hath not now left pen'd,But most suppose in him did Cyrus end,Whose race long time had worne the diadem,But now's divolved to another stem.Three years he reign'd, then drank of's fathers cupBy the same Eunuch who first set him up.Darius Codomanus.Darius by this Bagoas set in throne,(Complotter with him in the murther done)And was no sooner setled in his reign,But Bagoas falls to's practices again,And the same sauce had served him no doubt,But that his troason timely was found out.And so this wretch (a punishment too small)Lost but his life for horrid treasons all.This Codomanus now upon the stageWas to his Predecessors Chamber pagSome write great Cyrus line was not run,But from some daughter this new king was sprung0