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[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.
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