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Thimistocles death.

That noble Greeke Themistocles,
by Artaxerxes forcde:
To fight agaynst his natiue soyle,
in harnesse braue was horsde.
But marke a valiaunt minde,
beholde a famous deede:
To hurt his soyle this noble Greeke,
did feele his heart to bleede.
To voyde this wrath of Perseans Prince,
hee bloode with poyson dranke:

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And so to die, that so did liue,
hee gladly God did thanke.