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185.
LAtona's Twins, bright Cynthia, and her brother
Resplendent Phoebus, with his glroious rayes
Had seven times given place to one another,
And fully had accomplisht seven dayes
E're Leoline through devious woods and wayes,
Accompanied by Fsloyd as his consort,
Came to Eblana to King Dermots court.
186.
On the eighth day, sacred to Venus name,
If fortuned at Court there was a feast
To welcome an Embassadour that came
From Albion which they two (among the rest)
Comming to see, like two French Monsieurs drest,
They, noted to be strangers, were so grac't,
As next to the Kings table to be plac't.
187.
At mid'st whereof under a cloth of state,
To which one must by three degrees ascend,
In a rich chayre the royall Dermot sate,
Th' Embassadour and Princesse at each end,
On Mellefant, Amanthis doth attend,
As Cup-bearer, the while that she did dine,
And when she pleas'd to call, did bring her wine.