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Enter Discord.
Flashes of fire.
Antho.
Now Cæsar hath thy flattering Fortune heapt
Those golden gifts and promis'd victories,
By fatall signes at Rubicon foretould:
Then triumph in thy glorious greatest pride,
And boast thou cast the lucky Die so well,
Now let the Triton that did sound alarme,
In his shrill trump resound the victory,
That Heauen and Earth may Ecco of thy fame:
Yet thinke in this thy Fortunes Iollity.
Though Cæsar be as great as great may be,
Yet Pompey once was euen as great as he,
And how he rode clad in Setorius spoyles:
And the Sicilian Pirats ouerthrowe.
Ruling like Nepoune in the mid-land Seas,
Who basely now by Land and Sea doth flie,
The heauenly Rectors prosecuting wrath,
Yet Sea nor Land can shroud him from this iar,
O how it ioyes my discord thirsting thoughts,
To see them waight, that whilom flow'd in blisse.
To see like Banners, vnlike quarrels haue.
And Roman weapons shethd in Roman blood,
For this I left the deepe Infernall shades
And past the sad Auernus vgly iawes,
And in the world came I, being Discord hight,
Discord the daughter of the greesly night.
To make the world a hell of plauges and woes,
Twas I that did the fatal Aple fling,
Betwixt the three Idean goddesses,
That so much blood of Greekes and Troians spilt,
Twas I that caused the deadly Thebans warre,
And made the brothers swell with endlesse hate.
And now O Rome, woe, woe, to thee I cry
Which to the world do bring al misery.