Typhon or, The Gyants War with The Gods. A Mock-poem. In Five Canto's [by John Phillips] |
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THE Argument OF THE WHOLE.
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THE Argument OF THE WHOLE.
The Gyant Typhon's mighty strength;
His courage, inches, and his length:
The threats, the menaces and odds
'Twixt him, the Gyants and the Gods.
Those wonders which as yet but few know,
Besides those Gods and Madam Juno;
And they are wiser then to tell
Disasters to themselves befell.
His courage, inches, and his length:
The threats, the menaces and odds
'Twixt him, the Gyants and the Gods.
Those wonders which as yet but few know,
Besides those Gods and Madam Juno;
And they are wiser then to tell
Disasters to themselves befell.
The nimble God from heaven sent
Returnes with Gyants Complement:
At which the Gods begin to tremble,
And straight a Parliament assembles;
Who for preventing future harms,
Consult on manner of their Arms:
Debating long, it is decreed
That Vulcan fall to work with speed.
Returnes with Gyants Complement:
At which the Gods begin to tremble,
And straight a Parliament assembles;
Who for preventing future harms,
Consult on manner of their Arms:
Debating long, it is decreed
That Vulcan fall to work with speed.
The Gyants give the first Alarm
With ill success: again they arm,
Renew a second time the fight
With like success, are put to flight.
Back they return, and gain the odds;
They rout, and they pursue the Gods,
Who cunningly do vary shape
In Wood, the better to escape.
With ill success: again they arm,
Renew a second time the fight
With like success, are put to flight.
Back they return, and gain the odds;
They rout, and they pursue the Gods,
Who cunningly do vary shape
In Wood, the better to escape.
The Gods bethink it base to range
In Woods like beasts, and therefore change
Their borrow'd shapes: at Nylus-banks
God Mercury performs his pranks
They cloath themselves, to Memphis go;
The Priest and People kindness show:
Great Hercules they send for, who
Attends them with no more ado.
In Woods like beasts, and therefore change
Their borrow'd shapes: at Nylus-banks
God Mercury performs his pranks
They cloath themselves, to Memphis go;
The Priest and People kindness show:
Great Hercules they send for, who
Attends them with no more ado.
Jove and his son Alcides go
By joynt consent in quest of foe.
Gyants scale heaven to a wonder;
From thence are headlong thrown by Thunder.
A fight determines; where's the odds,
On Gyants side, or on the Gods.
Gyants are slaine, and Typhon flies:
Great Jove pursues, and Typhon dies.
By joynt consent in quest of foe.
Gyants scale heaven to a wonder;
From thence are headlong thrown by Thunder.
A fight determines; where's the odds,
On Gyants side, or on the Gods.
Gyants are slaine, and Typhon flies:
Great Jove pursues, and Typhon dies.
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