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A77237	The tenth muse lately sprung up in America or severall poems, compiled with great variety of vvit and learning, full of delight. Wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year. Together with an exact epitomie of the four monarchies, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. Also a dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious poems. By a gentlewoman in those parts.	Bradstreet, Anne, 1612?-1672.	1650 (1650)	Wing B4167; Thomason E1365_4; ESTC R209246	98,259	223

Epire for her great turbulence This new Protector 's of another minde Thinks by her Majesty much help to finde Cassander could not like his father see This Polisperchons great ability Slights his commands his actions he disclaimes And to be great himselfe now bends his aymes Such as his father had advanc'd to place Or by his favour any way did grace Are now at the devotion of the Son Prest to accomplish what he would have done Besides he was the young Queens favourite On whom 't was thought the set her chief delight Unto these helps in Greece he seeks out more Goes to Antigonus and doth implore By all the Bonds 'twixt him and 's father past And for that great gift which he gave him last By these and all to grant him some supply To take down Polisperchon grown so high For this Antigonus needed no spurs Hoping still more to gaine by these new stirs Straight furnisht him with a sufficient aide Cassander for return all speed now made Polisperchon knowing he did relye Upon those friends his father rais'd on high Those absent banished or else he slew All such as he suspected to him true Cassander with his Hoast to Grecia goes Whom Polisperchon labours to oppose But had the worst at Sea as well as Land And his opponent still got upper hand Athens with many Townes in Greece besides Firme to Cassander at this time abides Whilst hot in wars these two in Greece remaine Antigonus doth all in Asia gaine Still labours Eumenes might with him side But to the last he faithfull did abide Nor could Mother nor Sons of Alexander Put trust in any but in this Commander The great ones now began to shew their minde And act as opportunity they finde Aridaeus the scorn'd and simple King More then he bidden was could act no thing Polisperchon hoping for 's office long Thinks to enthrone the Prince when riper grown Euridice this injury disdaines And to Cassander of this wrong complaines Hatefull the Name and House of Alexander Was to this proud vindicative Cassander He still hep● fresh within his memory His Fathers danger with his Family Nor counts he that indignity but small When Alexander knockt his head to th' wall These with his love unto the amorous Queen Did make him vow her servant to be seen Olimpias Aridaeus deadly hates As all her Husbands children by his Mates She gave him poyson formerly 't is thought Which damage both to minde and body brought She now with Polisperchon doth combine To make the King by force his seat resigne And her young Nephew in his stead t' inthrone That under him she might rule all alone For ayde goes to Epire among her friends The better to accomplish these her ends Euridice hearing what she intends In hast unto her deare Cassander sends To leave his Seige at Tagra and with speed To come and succour her in this great need Then by intreaties promises and coyne Some Forces did procure with her to joyne Olimpias now enters Macedon The Queen to meet her bravely marched on But when her Souldiers saw their ancient Queen Remembring what sometime she had been The Wife and Mother of their famous Kings Nor Darts nor Arrowes now none shoots nor flings Then King and Queen to Amphipolis doe fly But soone are brought into captivity The King by extreame torments had his end And to the Queen these presents she doth send A Halter cup of Poyson and a Sword Bids chuse her death such kindnesse she 'l afford The Queen with many a curse and bitter check At length yeelds to the Halter her faire neck Praying that fatall day might quickly haste On which Olimpias of the like might taste This done the cruell Queen rests not content Till all that lov'd Cassander was nigh spent His Brethren Kinsfolk and his chiefest friends That were within her reach came to their ends Digg'd up his brother dead ' gainst natures right And throwes his bones about to shew her spight The Courtiers wondring at her furious minde Wisht in Epire she still had been confin'd In Pelloponesus then Cassander lay Where hearing of this newes he speeds away With rage and with revenge he 's hurried on So goes to finde this Queen in Macedon But being stopt at Straight Tharmipoley Sea passage gets and lands in Thessaly His Army he divides sends part away Polisperchou to hold a while in play And with the rest Olimpias pursues To give her for all cruelties her dues She with the flow'r o' th Court to Pidna flyes Well fortified and on the Sea it lies There by Cassander she 's block'd up so long Untill the Famine growes exceeding strong Her Cousen of Epire did what he might To raise the Seige and put her foes to flight Cassander is resolv'd there to remaine So succours and endeavours proves but vaine Faine would she come now to capitulate Cassander will not heare such is his hate The Souldiers pinched with this scarcity By stealth unto Casander daily fly Olimpias wills to keep it to the last Expecting nothing but of death to taste But he unwilling longer there to stay Gives promise for her life and wins the day No sooner had he got her in his hands But made in Judgement her Accusers stand And plead the blood of their deare Kindred spilt Desiring Justice might be done for guilt And so was he acquitted of his word For Justice sake she being put to th' sword This was the end of this most cruell Queen Whose fury yet unparalleld hath been The Daughter Sister Mother Wife to Kings But Royalty no good conditions brings So boundlesse was her pride and cruelty She oft forgot bounds of Humanity To Husbands death 't was thought she gave consent The Authours death she did so much lament With Garlands crown'd his head bemoan'd his Fates His sword unto Apollo consecrates Her out-rages too tedious to relate How for no cause but her inveterate hate Her Husbands Wife and Children after 's death Some flew some fry'd of others stopt the breath Now in her age she 's forc't to taste that Cup Which she had often made others to sup Now many Townes in Macedon supprest And Pellas faine to yeeld amongst the rest The Funeralls Cassandra celebrates Of Aridaeus and his Queen with state Among their Ancestors by him there laid And shewes of lamentation for them made Old Thebes he then re-built so much of fame And rais'd Cassandria after his name But leave him building others in their urn And for a while let 's into Asia turn True Eumenes endeavours by all skill To keep Antigonus from Susha still Having Command o' th treasure he can hire Such as nor threats nor favour could acquire In divers battels he had good successe Antigonus came off still honourlesse When victor oft had been and so might still Pencestas did betray him by a wile Antigonus then takes his life unjust Because he never would let go his trust Thus lost he all for his fidelity Striving

t' uphold h●s Masters family But as that to a period did haste So Eumenes of destiny must taste Antigonus all Persia now gains And Master of the treasure he remains Then with Seleuchus straight at ods doth fall But he for aid to Ptolomy doth call The Princes all begin now to envie Antigonus his growing up so hye Fearing their state and what might hap ere long Enter into a combination strong Selcuchus Ptolomy Cassander joynes Ly●●mac us to make a fourth combines Antigonus desirous of the Greeks To make Cassander odious to them seeks Sends forth his declaration from a farre And shews what cause they had to take up warre The Mother of their King to death he 'd put His Wife and Son in prison close had shut And how he aymes to make himselfe a King And that some title he might seeme to bring Thessalonica he had newly wed Daughter to Phillip their renowned head Had built and call'd a City by his name Which none e're did but those of royall fame And in despight of their two famous Kings Th' hatefull Olinthians to Greece re-brings Rebellious Thebs he had re-edified Which their late King in dust had-damnified Requires them therefore to take up their Armes And to requite this Traytor for those harmes Now Ptolomy would gaine the Greeks likewise For he declares against his injuries First how he held the Empire in his hands Seleuchus drove from government and lands Had valiant Eumenes unjustly slaine And Lord o' th' City Susha did remain So therefore craves their help to take him down Before he weare the universall Crown Antigonus at Sea soone had a fight Where Ptolomy and the rest put him to flight His Son at Gaza likewise lost the field So Syria to Ptolomy did yeeld And Sclcuchus recovers Babylon Still gaining Countries East-ward goes he on Demetrius againe with Ptolomy did fight And comming unawares put him to slight But bravely sends the Priseners back againe And all the spoyle and booty they had tane Curtius as noble Ptolomy or more Who at Gaza did th' like to him before Antigonus did much rejoyce his son His lost repute with victorie had won At last these Princes tired out with warres Sought for a peace and laid aside their jarres The terms of their agreement thus expresse That each shall hold what he doth now possesse Till Alexander unto age was grown Who then shall be installed in the throne This touch'd Cassander sore for what he 'd done Imprisoning both the mother and her son He sees the Greeks now favour their young Prince Whom he in durance held now and long since That in few years he must be forc'd or glad To render up such kingdomes as he had Resolves to quit his fears by one deed done And put to death the mother and her son This Rexane for her beautie all commend But for one act she did just was her end No sooner was great Alexander dead But she Dariu's daughters murthered Both thrown into a well to hide her blot Perdicas was her partner in this plot The Heavens seem'd slow in paying her the same But yet at last the hand of vengeance came And for that double fact which she had done The life of her must go and of her son Perdicas had before for his amisse But from their hands who thought not once of this Gassander's dead the Princes all detest But 't was in shew in heart it pleas'd them best That he was odious to the world they 'r glad And now they are free Lords of what they had When this foul tragedy was past and done Polisperchon brings up the other son Call'd Hercules and elder then his brother Bur Olymptas thought to preferre th' other The Greeks touch'd with the murther done so late This Prince began for to compassionate Begin to mutter much ' gainst proud Cassander And place their hopes o' th heire of Alexander Cassander fear'd what might of this insue So Polisperchon to his Counsell drew Gives Peloponesus unto him for hire Who slew the prince according to desire Thus was the race and house of Alexander Extinct by this inhumane wretch Cassander Antigonus for all this doth not mourn He knows to 's profit all i' th end will turn But that some title he might now pretend For marriage to Cleopatra doth send Lysimachus and Ptolomy the same And vile Cassander too sticks not for shame She now in Lydia at Sardis lay Where by Embassage all these Princes pray Choise above all of Ptolomy she makes With his Embassadour her journey takes Antigonu's Lieutenant stayes her still Untill he further know his Masters will To let her go or hold her still he fears Antigonus thus had a wolf by th' ●a●s Resolves at last the Princesse then'd be stain So hinders him of her he could not gain Her women are appointed to this deed They for their great reward no better speed For straight way by command they 'r put to death As vile conspiratours that took her breath And now he thinks he 's ordered all so well The world must needs believe what he doth tell Thus Philips house was quite extinguished Except Cassanders wife who yet not dead And by their means who thought of nothing lesse Then vengeance just against the same t' expresse Now blood was paid with blood for what was done By cruell father mother cruell son Who did erect their cruelty in guilt And wronging innocents whose blood they spilt Philip and Olympias both were slain Aridaeus and his Queen by slaughters ta'ne Two other children by Olympias kill'd And Cleopatra's blood now likewise spill'd If Alexander was not poysoned Yet in the flower of 's age he must lie dead His wise and sons then slain by this Cassander And 's kingdomes rent away by each Commander Thus may we hear and fear and ever say That hand is righteous still which doth repay These Captains now the stile of Kings do take For to their Crowns there 's none can title make Demetrius is first that so assumes To do as he the rest full soon presumes To Athens then he goes is entertain'd Not like a King but like some God they fain'd Most grossely base was this great adulation Who incense burnt and offered oblation These Kings fall now afresh to warres again Demetrius of Ptolomy doth gain 'T would be an endlesse story to relate Their severall battells and their severall fate Antigonus and Seleuchus now fight Near Ephesus each bringing all their might And he that conquerour shall now remain Of Asia the Lordship shall retain This day twixt these two foes ends all the strife For here Antigonus lost rule and life Nor to his son did there one foot remain Of those dominions he did sometimes gain Demetrius with his troops to Athens flies Hoping to find succour in miseries But they adoring in prosperity Now shut their gates in his adversity He sorely griev'd at this his desperate state Tries foes since friends will not compassionate His peace he

then with old Seleuchus makes Who his fair daughter Stratonica takes Antiochus Seleuchus dear lov'd son Is for this fresh young Lady-half undone Falls so extreamly sick all fear his life Yet dares not say he loves his fathers wife When his disease the skilfull Physician found He wittily his fathers mind did sound Who did no sooner understand the same But willingly resign'd the beauteous dame Cassander now must die his race is run And leaves the ill got kingdomes he had won Two sons he left born of King Philips daughter Who had an end put to their dayes by slaughter Which should succeed at variance they fell The mother would the youngest should excell The eld'st enrag'd did play the vipers part And with his Sword did pierce his mothers heart Rather then Philips child must longer live He whom she gave his life her death must give This by Lysimachus soon after slain Whose daughter unto wife he 'd newly ta'n The youngest by Demetrius kill'd in fight Who took away his now pretended right Thus Philips and Cassander's race is gone And so falls out to be extinct in one Yea though Cassander died in his bed His seed to be extirpt was destined For blood which was decreed that he should spill Yet must his children pay for fathers ill Jehu in killing Ahabs house did well Yet be aveng'd must th' blood of Jesreel Demetrius Cassanders kingdomes gains And now as King in Macedon he reigns Seleuchus Asia holds that grieves him sore Those 〈◊〉 untries large his father got before These to recover musters all his might And with his son in law will needs go fight There was he taken and imprisoned Within an Isle that was with pleasures fed Injoy'd what so beseem'd his Royalty Onely restrained of his liberty After three years he dyed left what he 'd won In Greece unto Antigonus his son For h s posterity unto this day Did n●'r regain one foot in Asia Now dyed the brave and noble Ptolomy Renown'd for bounty valour clemency Rich Aegypt left and what else he had won To Philadelphus his more worthy Son Of the old Heroes now but two remaine Seleuchus and Lysimachus those twaine Must needs goe try their fortune and their might And so Lysimachus was slaine in fight 'T was no small joy unto Seleuchus breast That now he had out-lived all the rest Possession he of Europe thinks to take And so himselfe the only Monarch make Whilst with these hopes in Greece he did remaine He was by Ptolomy Cerannus slaine The second Son of the first Ptolomy Who for rebellion unto him did sly Selencbus was as Father and a friend Yet by him had this most unworthy end Thus with these Kingly Captaines have we done A little now how the Succession run Antigonus Seleuchus and Cassander With Ptolomy reign'd after Alexander Cassanders Sons soone after 's death were slaine So three Successors only did remaine Antigonus his Kingdoms lost and 's life Unto Seleuchus author of that strife His Son Demetrius all Cassanders gaines And his posterity the same retaines Demetrius Son was call'd Awigonus And his againe also Demetrius I must let passe those many battels fought Between those Kings and noble Fyrrus stout And his son Alexander of Epire Whereby immortall honour they acquire Demetrius had Philip to his son He Perseus from him the kingdom 's won Emillius the Roman Generall Did take his rule his sons himself and all This of Antigonus his seed's the fate Whose kingdomes were subdu'd by th' Roman state Longer Seleuchus held the Royalty In Syria by his posterity Awiochus Soter his son was nam'd To whom Ancient Berosus To much fam'd His book of Assurs Monarchs dedicates Tells of their warres their names their riches fates But this is perished with many more Which we oft wish were extant as before Antiochus Theos was Soters son Who a long warre with Egypts King begun The affinities and warres Daniel set forth And calls them there the Kings of South and North This ●●cos he was murthered by his wife Seleuchus reign'd when he had lost his life A third Seleuchus next sit● on the seat And then Antiochus surnam'd the great Seleuchus next Anttiochus succeeds And then Epiphanes whole wicked deeds Horrid massacres murders cruelties Against the Jewes we read in Macchabees By him was set up the abomination I 'th' holy place which caused desolation Antiochus Eupator was the next By Rebells and imposters daily vext So many Princes still were murthered The Royall blood was quite extinguished That Tygranes the great Armenian King To take the government was called in Him Lucullus the Romane Generall Vanquish'd in fight and took those kingdomes all Of Greece and Syria thus the rule did end In Egypt now a little time we 'l spend First Ptolomy being dead his famous son Cal'd Philadelphus next sat on the throne The Library at Alexandria built With seven hundred thousand volumes fill'd The seventy two interpreters did seek They might translate the Bible into Greek His son was Evergetes the last Prince That valour shew'd vertue or excellence Philopater was Evergete's son After Epiphanes sat on the Throne Philometer then Evergetes again And next to him did false Lathurus reigne Alexander then Lathurus in 's stead Next Auletes who cut off Pompey's head To all these names we Ptolomy must adde For since the first that title still they had Fair Cleopatra next last of that race Whom Julius Caesar set in Royall place Her brother by him lost his trayterous head For Pompey's life then plac'd her in his stead She with her Paramour Mark Antony Held for a time the Egyptian Monarchy Till great Augustus had with him a fight At Actium slain his Navy put to flight Then poysonous Aspes she sets unto her Armes To take her life and quit her from all harmes For 't was not death nor danger she did dread But some disgrace in triumph to be led Here ends at last the Grecian Monarchy Which by the Romans had its destiny Thus Kings and Kingdoms have their times and dates Their standings over-turnings bounds and fates Now up now down now chief and then brought under The Heavens thus rule to fill the earth with wonder The Assyrian Monarchy long time did stand But yet the Persian got the upper hand The Grecian them did utterly subdue And Millions were subjected unto few The Grecian longer then the Persian stood Then came the Romane like a raging flood And with the torrent of his rapid course Their Crownes their Titles riches beares by force The first was likened to a head of gold Next armes and breast of silver to behold The third belly and thighs of brasse in sight And last was Iron which breaketh all with might The Stone out of the Mountaine then did rise And smote those feet those legs those arms and thighs Then gold silver brasse iron and all that store Became like chaffe upon the threshing floor The first a Lion second was a Beare The third a Leopard