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Show ~The fecondBookeoftheytiritpare Ougrng.6 Fromthence forward, ( asthenale gocth) the Symplecades hauc food a hy the gods, fay they ,had decreed thatafter the paflage of afupsthey e eure ws mer wat the ‘Are onautes cameto the Mariandyni,a people inh abiting about the m iE oa t Cuariy.G.9s ofthe Hiffory oftheWorld, to the Phaaces, there found the fhip Argo,and demanded Atedes of Alvin: : whercto Alcinous made anfwer, thatif {hee were not Ja/ons wife, they fhould haue her ; bue if ee were already married, he would nottake her from her husband, Arete, the wife of ter Partbenius,where Lytws the King entertained thein cousteonity.. He ‘ isan As 0 I Alcinous, heaving this, married them : whereforethey of Colchos not daring to returne home,ftayed withthePheates; fo the Argonautes departed thence, and after a. while Caucafus,and cameo the river? ais,whichyruns through the land f "6 ua tj W a they were entredthehauen, Ja/on wentto - Actes che King of Col hes, and rold tm rt Commandementof: Pelias, and.caufe of hiscomming, defiinghim to. deliver ei den Fleece, which «etes,as.the,Fable goeth, promifed to doe, if hee ales BRM yoake together twobrazen hott Bulls, and, plowing the ground wi bd om, fee: rt gons teeth, which Minerua hadigyucn. to him, being part of thofe whi AG ra fome of the Fablers fay yby /wécan. This man had one veinein his body reaching from the necke to the heele,the end whereofwas clofed vp witha brazennaile, his name was Talus fayerof. their companywasflaine by,a wilde spare ; alfo-here 7 pp his dicd , anc att #vndertookc to ftearethe hips So they pafled by che river, Thermodon, hi rath fowe at Thebes. Thefe Bulls were greatand fierce, and breathed out fire : Valea hadgt onthem to.A£etes. , Whilet Jafoawas ina great\perplexitie aboutghis.taske, Azedea the daughter ofe thts fellintoamoft vehement loue ofhim, fo farre forth, chat being exccllcat in aegigt fhe camepriuily to him, promifing her helpe, if he would aflure her of | as marraeial this /afozagreed,and confirmedhis promifebyoath.' Thengauefhe tohima mete wherewith fhe bad himto annointboth his body and his armour, which w ould prefene him fromtheir violence: further {hee roldhim,. that armed men wouldrife out of they ground, from the teeth whichhe fhould fowe, and fer vpon him.. To remedy sah conuenience, fhebad him throweftonesamongftthemas fooncas they came ¥P i e whereupon they would fall togetherto blowes,inifach wife that hee might calily uy them.) /4/oz followed her counfaile;, whereto,when the euent had an{wered, heeaga demanded the Fleece. But. £etes was {o farre from approuing fuch his defire, that hee deuifed how to deftroy the U4rgonautes, and burne their fhip; which Adedes oa uing, went toJa/oz; and brought him by nightto the Fleece, which hung.on an i in the groue of A4ars, where,they fay, it was kept by a Dragorf, that neuer fe This Dragon was by the Atagique of Medea cat into a fleepe : fo, taking away golden Feece; fhee went with Lafonintothe fhip 410 ; hauing with her, her brother} Abfirtus. wg »e&etes vnderftanding the pra@ifes of Adedea, prouided to purfue the. fhip, wom when Adedea perceiued to be at hand. the flew her brother,and cuttin g.himin:piects; Mt {cattered his limbs in diuers places; of which -£etes finding fome, was faine to ee thexcft, and fuffer his daughterto paffe : the parts ofhis fon he buried in a_place, . thereupon he called Tom:.the Greeke word fignifieth Diwifion. Afterwards he {ent ay of his fubietsto {ecke the fhip 4rgo,threatning thar if they brought not backe Me : they fhould fuffer.in her ftead: In the meane while the Argonautes were driuen about | cametoCrete. Inthis and, Atinds raigned, who hada man of brafle giuen to, him (as :his cuftome was to runne thticeaday abotit the and for the defence ofit. When xo hee faw the thip -47go paffe by, hee threwftones at it, hut Afedee with her Magique deftroyed him. Somefay that the flew him by potions, which. made him mad; others, that promifing to makehim immortal, thee drew out the naile that ftopt his veine, by, which meanesall his blood ranne out,and he died ; others there arethatf ay He was flaine by Peam, who wounded him with an arrow in the hecle. From hence the \Argonaut es failed to Aegina, where they were faineto fight for freth water. And laftly, from Aczing they failed by Eubea andiZocrés hometo /olcos, where they artiued, hauing fpent foure whole monethsin the expedition. aby Some therearetharby this iourney of Za/oa, vnderftandthe myfterie cfthe Philofophersftone, called the golden Fleece, to which alfo, dtherfuper-fine Chymifts drawe 20 thetweluelabours of Hercules. snide thinkesthat by the golden. Fleece was meant a golden booke of Parchment, whichis of theepesskin, and therefor e called golden, be= caufe it wastaughttherein howother mettals might betranfnuted. Others would fignifieby' Ja/o#; wifedome; and mederation, which ouercommerhal l which ismoftprobable,isthe opinion ofDercifws,that the ftory of fuchaperils : but that paflage was true, and that J4/oz with the reft went indeed to rob Colchos, to which they might arriue by. boate. Foriotfatre from Casca/us there arecertaine fteepefalling downe many graines of gold,asin many other parts of the world ;torrents which wath andthe inhabiting wfe vo fer manyfleeces of wooll in thofe defcents of waters, peoplethere in which:the Staines ofgold remaine, and the water pafleth thorow, which s¢rabo witnefle th to bee 36 true. Themiany rockes, ftraits,fands,and currents, in the paflage between the bottome of Poxtus;ave'Poetically convertedinto thofe fiery bulls,th e Greece and e armed men rifing ourofi theground, the Dragonicaftafleepe,and the like. The man of braffe, the Syrens,Scyllaand Charybdis, were other/hazards and aduentures which they fell into in the Adediterranfeay difgnited; dsthetett, by Orpheus,ynder Poetivall miorals ssalli which Ho- mer afterward vied(the man of braflé excepted jin the defeription ofviyfes his trauailes, on the fame Inland-feas; heated papieter §. VII. OfAbimelech, Tholan, and lair, and ofthe Lapythe, and ofThefeus, Hyppolytus, che. Seas, and were cometo the Riber Eridanus, whichis Po in Italic. hy Jupiter; offended with the flaughter. of; Abfirtus, vexed them witha great rempe f and carried themthey knewnor, whiticrs when, they came to the Ilands Alfie there the fhip_#rgo, (tharthcre might w.‘nt:no incredible thing in this Fable) ve to.them and faid, that the anger of Jupiter fhouldnot ceafe » till they came ic an fonia, and were cleanfed by Circe, from the, murtherof Abfyrtus. Nowthey ise uponfayling betweenethe coafts of Lybia and Gallia, and pafling through the af Sardinia and alongft the coaft of Hetraria,came tothe Tle of .4ea, wherein Cie ie whocleanfedthem. Thence they fayled by thecoalt of the syrens, who fang t0 vl them into danger: but Orpheus om the ether fide fang fo well that he flayed them. OM : 3 ly Bates {wamme L agy »i SUE 4 out vato them, whom Vesusrauifhed, and carryed to Lylibeum Hieto dwell; . Hauing palt the syvens,theycame betweene a» fragling Seylla and Charybdes, and ithefrage Ne>| rocks which feemed: to caft out gtcat ftore of amesand fmoake. But Thet# 20 d sicilt retdes, conueyedt hem fafethrongh at theappointment of Juno. So they coatte Phe where the becnes.of the Sunne were, and touched at Corcyra, the Hand of the 7 c Where King AlcizousLaignes taigned. Mean ewhile>t beene it he men of Golches, that had{ Degree f by eetes in queft of the thip ofArgo, hearing no newesof it, and fearing lis omdvitl theyfulfilled not his will, betooke themfelues to new habitatio : fomeof the mmnlog in the mountaines of Corcyre; others in the Wands Abfpreidens s, and fome CON SCZ Frer the death ofGideon, Abimelech: his*bafe fonne begortén on mConcubine Eg Of the sechemites, vemembritig whatoffers had bene madeto his\father by: the mates people, who defired to'make hin and histheir perpetuall Princes :dndiasit fee+ meth, fuppofing (notwithttadding his fathers religiousmodefty,) that-fomie of his bie» thren might take on them the Soueraigntie, pra@ifed with the Inhabicantssof Secbem (of which his mother was natiue)to makeelection ofhimfelfe, who being eafily tnoued withthe glory, to haue a Kingof theirowne, readily condefce nded toenable L¢bimelech, they bortowed:76. pieces offiluer of their : and ithe ‘better Idall: Btalberith,with 48-94% 50 Whichtreafurehe hyredacompany:of toofe and defpera te vagabonds, ni affitt his firft deteftableenterprife, ro Wit; the flaughterof his 70: brethre n, the fonnés.6F Gideow, begotten onhis wines, ofwhich he had many; ofall which none efcaped but votham the Verle 5. youngeft, who ‘hid himfelte from his prefent-furie: all. which heexecuted omoneftone, acrueltyexceeding all that hath beene written of in apy-age . | Such-is ‘humanc;ambi- ton, a monfter that neither feareth God ( though' all-powerful, and whofe reueng es are without date and for cuerlafting }néither hath it refpect ito ‘naturé; »which labou- eth the preferuation of euery being>: ‘but it aperh alfovagainft her; though gaz. nithed with beautie whith neuer dieth,-and with loue that hath no end.All other paffions Mm 3 |