2 24 Anne Brad ft reefs Works,
His Camels, beafts for carriage numberlefs,
For Truths afham'd, how many to exprefs ;
The charge of all, he feverally commended
To Princes, of the Perjian bloud defcended:
But the command of thefe commanders all,
Unto Mardonius made their General ; ""
(He was the Son of the fore nam'd Godrius^
Who married the Sifter of Darius^
Such^ his land Forces were, then next a fleet, [104]
Of two and twenty thoufand Gallies meet
Man'd with P kenicians and Pamphylians
Cipriots^ Dorians and Cilicians,
LycianSj Carians and lonimis,^
Eoliajis and the Helefpontines.
Befides the veflTels for his tranfportation,
Which to three thoufand came (by beft relation)
Brave Artemijia,, Hallicarnajffus Queen *
In perfon prefent^ for his aid '^ was feen,
Whofe Gallyes all the reft in neatnefs pafs.
Save the Zidonians, where Xerxes was:
But hers fhe kept ftill feperate from the reft.
For to command alone, fhe judg'd "" was beft.
O noble Queen, thy valour I commend;
But pitty 'twas thine aid thou^ here didft lend.
At Sardis in Lydia., all thefe do meet,
Wb.ether^ rich Pythias comes Xerxes to greet,
^ To Mardo>it/i.<:, Captain Generall. y Thele.
« Three thoufand (or more). l> Artemcjto. Halicartia's Qiieene,
<: there, now. d help. '■ thou,i,dit. / that. g Whither.
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