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Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

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300 XXIV. THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST.67 Cassandra yet <strong>the</strong>re sawe I howe <strong>the</strong>y haledFrom Pallas house, with spercled tresse vndone,Her wristes fast bouwd, and with Greeks rout empaledAnd Priam eke in vayne howe he did runneTo armes, whom Pyrrhus with despite hath doneTo cruel death, and ba<strong>the</strong>d him in <strong>the</strong> bayneOf his sonnes blud before <strong>the</strong> altare slayne.68 But howe can I descryve <strong>the</strong> doleful sight.That in <strong>the</strong> shylde so liue-like fayer did shyne ?Sith in this world I thinke was neuer wyghtCould haue set furth <strong>the</strong> halfe, not halfe so fyne.I can no more but tell howe <strong>the</strong>re is seeneFayer Ilium fal in burning red gledes downe,And <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> soyle great Troy, Neptunus <strong>to</strong>wne.69 Here<strong>from</strong> when scarce I could mine iyes withdrawe,That fylde with teares as doeth <strong>the</strong> spryngyng well,We passed on so far furth tyl we saweRude Acheron, a lothsome lake <strong>to</strong> tell,That boyles and bubs vp swelth as blacke as hell,Where grisly Charon, at <strong>the</strong>yr fixed tide,Stil ferreies ghostes vn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> farder side ;70 The aged God no sooner sorowe spyed,But hasting strayt vn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> banke apaceWith hollow call vn<strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> rout he cryed,To swarve apart, and geue <strong>the</strong> Goddesse place.was done, when <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> shoar we pace,Strayt itWhere hand in hand as we <strong>the</strong>n linked fast,Within <strong>the</strong> boate we are <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r plaste.

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