. The wisedome of the ancients . THE WISE- DOME OF lleightJ CASSANDRA,or Dinination. He Poets fable that A-polh being enamoured ofCajfandra , was by hermanyiliifts and cunningflill deluded in his defirc;but yet fed on with hope vntiil fuchtime as lliec had drawen from himthe gift of prophecying j and hauingby luch her dillimulation in theend, arrayned to that which from thebeginning (lie fought after , at laftflatly reiedled his fuite. Who findinghimfelfc fo farre engaged in his pro-niifc, as that hee could not by anyA meanes The Wi sedome meanes reuoke againe his rafli gift,and
. The wisedome of the ancients . THE WISE- DOME OF lleightJ CASSANDRA,or Dinination. He Poets fable that A-polh being enamoured ofCajfandra , was by hermanyiliifts and cunningflill deluded in his defirc;but yet fed on with hope vntiil fuchtime as lliec had drawen from himthe gift of prophecying j and hauingby luch her dillimulation in theend, arrayned to that which from thebeginning (lie fought after , at laftflatly reiedled his fuite. Who findinghimfelfc fo farre engaged in his pro-niifc, as that hee could not by anyA meanes The Wi sedome meanes reuoke againe his rafli gift,and yet inflamed with an earned de-fire of reuengc, highly difdayningto bee made the fcorne of a crafticwench , annexed a pcnaltie to hisproraife, to wit, that fhec (houldcuer foretell the trueth, but neuer bebcleeued : So were her diuinationsalwayes faithfull. but at no time re-garded, whereof fliee fWl found theexperience, yeaeuenin the ruineofher owne countrey , which fliee hadoften forewarned them of, but theyneither gaue credit nor earc to herwordes. This Fab
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