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[Had Priams Queene in Cradle slaine her Sonne]
Had Priams Queene in Cradle slaine her Sonne,The lustfull Paris (haplesse boy) I meane:
Then Illions Towers might still haue brau'd the Sun:
His death to saue their liues had beene the meane.
Vnlucky lucke, when Iuno, Venus, Pallas
Did craue his censure vpon Ida Mount:
Whence sprung the cause that Troy & Priams Palace
Were burnt, which erst the skyes did seem to moūt.
Had he been drown'd or strangled with a cord,
He had not rob'd Oenon of her heart:
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With him, to head her husband like a Hart.
But Troy, it is thy fate, this knaue and Baggage
Confounds thy state, and fire thy bag & baggage.
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