University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet

Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted

collapse section 
  
  
  
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
  
expand section 
expand section 
  
collapse section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
expand section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
expand section 
  
collapse section 
  
[VVhen Hellen was for Priams sonne a mate]
  
  
  
  
  
  
expand section 
  
  
  
expand section 
  
  
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
  
expand section 
  
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 
expand section 

[VVhen Hellen was for Priams sonne a mate]

VVhen Hellen was for Priams sonne a mate,
From Greece bereft by Paris & his Band:
Which caus'd the Greekes, the Troian minds amate,
Som curs'd the boy; and other some they band:
The strum pet Queene which brought the burning brand,
That Illion fir'd, & wrack'd old Priams Race:
And on their Names long liuing shame did brand,
(For head-strong lust runnes an vnbounded Race.)
This beauteous peece, whose feature radiant blaze,
Made Menelaus horne-mad warre to wage:
And set all Troy in a combustious blaze,
Whose ten yeeres triumphs scarce was worth their wage,
For all their conquests, and their battring Rams,
Their leaders most return'd, with heads like Rams.