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IN Troy there lyes the Scene; From
Iles of Greece
The Princes Origillous, their high blood chaf'd
Haue to the port of Athens sent their shippes
Fraught with the ministers and instruments
Of cruell Warre: Sixty and nine that wore
Their Crownets Regall, from th'Athenian bay
Put forth toward Phrygia, and their vow is made
To ransacke Troy, within whose strong emures
The rauish'd Helen, Menelaus Queene,
With wanton Paris Sleepes, and that's the
Quarrell.
To Tenedos they come,
And the deepe‑drawing Barke do there disgorge
Their warlike frautage: now on Dardan Plaines
The fresh and yet vnbruised Greekes do pitch