The Four Monarchies. 299
When to his pleafure all things they had done,
The King and Queen he takes to Macedon^"
Two fons of Alexander^ and the reft,
All to be order'd there as he thought beft.
The Army to Antigonus doth leave,
And Goverment of Alia to him gave.
And thus Antipater the ground-work layes,
On which Antig07ius his height doth raife.
Who in few years, the reft fo overtops.
For univerfal Monarchy he hopes.
With Ettmenes he diverfe Battels fought,
And by his flights to circumvent him fought:
But vain it was to ufe his policy,
'Gainft him that all deceits could fcan and try.^
In this Epitome too long to tell
How finely ■" Eitmenes did here excell,
And by the felf fame Traps the other laid.
He to his coft was righteoufly repaid.-^
But while thefe Chieftains doe in Afia fight,
To Greece and Macedon lets turn our fight.
When great Antipater the world muft leave.
His place to Polifperchon did bequeath,^
Fearing his fon Cajfandcr was unftaid.
Too rafh '^ to bear that charge, if on him laid.
w Acknowledged for chief, this old Commander : After a while, to Macedon he makes ; The King, and Queen, along with him he takes.
X neatly. y The next two lines are not in the first edition.
2 Now great Antipater, the world doth leave To Polifperchon, then his place he gave, « young.
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