1738Ate.Non tam Trinacriis exaestuat AEtna cavernis,

1739Laesae furtivo quam cor mulieris amore.

1740Medea seeing Jason leave her love,

1741And choose the daughter of the Theban King,

1742Went to her devillish charms to work revenge;

1743And raising up the triple Hecate,

1744With all the rout of the condemned fiends,

1745Framed a garland by her magick skill,

1746With which she wrought Jason and Creon's ill.

1747So Guendoline seeing her self misus'd,

1748And Humber's paramour possesse her place,

1749Flies to the Dukedome of Cornubia,

1750And with her brother stout Thrasimachus,

1751Gathering a power of Cornish souldiers,

1752Gives battel to her husband and his host,

1753Nigh to the river of great Mertia:

1754The chances of this dismal massacre,