Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

222 Epigrams.902. Ad sesquipidales poetastros.Hence Brauron's god toTauriminion,And you Levaltoring Corybants be gon ;Fly thundering Bronsterops to Hippocrene,And Mauros to Nymph-nursing Mytelene;Grisly Megcercts necromantique spellDepart to black nights Acherontick cell :Avaunt transformed Epidaurian,Unto th'Antipod isles of Trabroban,Away Cyllenius plumy-pinnion'd God,With thy peace-making wand, snake-charming rod ;And all the rest not daring look uponVranus blood-born brood, and fellTyphon ;Chimera's victor great Bellerophon,Thou vanquisher of Spanish Geryon.Stout Asdruball Sicilian Lord of yore,Thou that destro/dst the Calidonian bore,Couragious conqueror of Cretes Minotaure,Thou pride of Mermeno's cloudy Semitaure.Perseus whose marble stone transforming shield,Enforc'd the Whale, Andromeda to yeeld,You Argonautes that scoufd Syndromades,And pass'd the quick-sands of Symplegades,Help Demogorgon, King of heaven and earth,Chaos, Ludna, at Litigiums birth,The world with Childe looks for deliveryOf Canibals, or Poetophagy.A devilish brood from Ericthonius,From Iphidemia, Nox, and Erebus,