10 
INTRODUCTORY PIECES. 
1 see him smile, methinks, as he does talk 
With the ambassadors, who come in vain 
T’ entice him to a throne asuin. 
‘ If I, my friends,’ said he, ‘ should to you 
show 
All the delights which in these gardens grow, 
’Tis likelier far that you with me should stay, 
1 han ’tis that you should carry me away: 
And trust me not, my friends, if, every day, 
I walk not here with more delight, 
Then ever, after the most happy fight, 
In triumph to the capital I rode. 
To thank the gods, and to be thought myself 
almost a god,’ 
