...mouth, did die the greene grasse blacke, But yet the wound was verie light bicause he writhed backe And puld his head still from the stroke: and made the stripe to die By giving way, untill that Cadmus following irefully The stroke, with all his powre and might did through the throte him rive, And naylde him to an Oke behind the which he eke did clive. The Serpents waight did make the tree t...