The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight.

Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.

Date:: [1652]

Credit: The historie of the world. In five bookes. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham. 2 Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon. 3 From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon. 4 From the Raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the Race of Antigonus. 5 From the settled rule of Alexanders Sucessors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon / By Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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I From thence forward, (as the tale goeth)the Symplegades Mve flood ftill: for the gods,fay they,had decreed that after the pailage of a fhip,they fhould be fixed.Thence the Argonautes came to the Mariandyni, a people inhabiting about the mouth of the ri- (yer Parthenius,whefeLyots the King entertained them curteoufly.Here idmon a Sooth- fayer of their company was fiain by a wildeBoare$ alfo here 7'yphis dyed : and Ancte¬ ns undertook to fteare the (hip. So they paffed by the River 7 her mo don, and Mount Caucajus, and came to the River Phafs, which runs through the land of Colchos. When they were entred the haven, Jafon went to Metes the King of Colchos, and told him the Cammandment of Velios, and caufe of his coming, defiring him to deliver the golden Fleece 5 which Metes, as the Fable goeth, promifed to doe, if he alone would yoak i0 together two brazen hooft Bulls, and plowing the ground with them, fowe Dragons teeth, which Minerva, had given to him, being part of thofe which Cadmus did fowe at Thebes. Thefe Bulls were great and fierce, and breathed out fire: Vulcan had given them to Metes. Whileft Jafon was in a great perplexity about this talk. Medtea the daughter ofM- etes fell into a mold vehement love of him. fo far forth,that being excellent in Magique, (he came privily to him, promifing her help if he would allure her of his marriage. To this Jafon agreed,and confirmed his promife by oath.Then gave (he to him a medicine wherewith die bade him toannoint both his body and his armour, which would pre- fervehim from their violence: further fhe told him, that armed men would rife out of 20 the ground, from the teeth which he fhould fowe, and fet upon him To remedy which inconvenience, fhe bade him throw ftones amongft thefn as foon as they came up thick, whereupon they would fall together to blowes, in fitch wife that he might eafily flay them. Jafon followed her counfell $ whereto when the event had anfwer- ed, he again demanded the Fleece. But Metes was fo far from approving fuch his de¬ fire, that he devifed how to deftroy the Argonauts,and burn their fhip 5 which Medtra perceiving, went to Jafon, and brought him by night to the Fleece, which hung on an Oak in the Grove of Mars, where, they fay, it was kept by a Dragon that never flept. This Dragon was by the Magick of Medtea caff into a fleep : fo taking away the Golden Fleece, fhe went with Jafon into the fhip Argo 3 having with her, her brother 30 Abjyrtus. Metes underftandingthepra&ices of Medsea, provided to purfue the fhip, whom when Medsea perceived to be at hand, fhe flew her brother, and cutting him in pieces, (he fcattered his limbs in divers places 5 of which Metes finding fome, was fain to feek out the reft, and fuffer his Daughter to pafle : the parts of his fon he buried in a place, which thereupon he called 7omi 3 the Greeks word fignifieth Dhifion. Afterwards he fent many of his fubje&s to feek the fhip Argo, threatning that if they brought not back Med&a,they fhould fuffer in her ftead. In the mean while the Argonauts were driven about the Seas, and were come to the River Eridanus: which is Po in Italy. Jupiter, offended with the (laughter of Abjyrtus, vexed them with a great tempeft and carried them they knew not whither 3 when they came to the Iflands Abfyrtides' there the fhip Argo, (that there might want no incredible thing in this Fable) fpake to them and faid, that the anger of Jupiter fhould not ceafe, till they came to Am- fonia, and were clean fed by Circe, from the murther of Abjyrtus. Now they there¬ upon failing between the coafts of Lybia md GaUia, and paffmg through the Sea of Sardinia, and alongft the coaft of Hetruria,came to the Ifle of Mea, wherein Circe dwelt who cleanfed them. Thence they failed by the coaft of the Syrens> who fang to allure them into danger: but Orpheus on the other fide fang fo well, that he flayed them. Onely Butes fwam out unto them,: whom Venus ravifhed,and carried to Lylibmm in Si¬ cily to dwell. . Having paft the Syrens, they came between ScyUa and Charybdis, and the (trading 5 Rocks, which feemed to caft out great fbore of flames and fmoak. But Thetis and the Nereides,conveyed them fafe through at the appointment of Juno. So they eoafted Si- cilie, where the Beeves of the Sun were, and touched at Corcyta, the Ifland of the Phts- aces, where King Alcinous reigned. Mean while the men of Colchos, th.it had been lent by Metes in queft of the fhip Argo, hearing no news of it, and fearing his anger, if they fulfilled not his will, betook themfelves tanew habitations: Some of them dwelt in the Mountains of Corcyre3others in the Iflands of Abfyrtides,and fome coming L M - to

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