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Macedon (Greece) (search for this): book 8, card 637
ds of Rome. Nor to the tyrant did the sight suffice To prove the murder done. The perishing flesh, The tissues, and the brain he bids remove By art nefarious: the shrivelled skin Draws tight upon the bone; and poisonous juice Gives to the face its lineaments in death. Last of thy race, thou base degenerate boy, About to perishHe was drowned in attempting to escape in the battle on the Nile in the following autumn. soon, and yield the throne To thine incestuous sister; while the Prince From Macedon here in consecrated vault Now rests, and ashes of the kings are closed In mighty pyramids, and lofty tombs Of thine unworthy fathers mark the graves; Shall Magnus' body hither and thither borne Be battered, headless, by the ocean wave? Too much it troubled thee to guard the corse Unmutilated, for his kinsman's eye To witness! Such the fate which Fortune kept With prosperous Pompeius to the end. 'Twas not for him in evil days some ray Of light to hope for. Shattered from the height Of power
Nile (search for this): book 8, card 637
His spouse, less patient to behold the crime Than to endure it, filled the airs with cries; '0, husband, whom my wicked self hath slain! 'That lonely isle apart thy bane hath been 'And stayed thy coming. Caesar to the Nile 'Has won before us; for what other hand 'May do such work? But whosoe'er thou art 'Sent from the gods with power, for Caesar's ire, 'Or thine own sake, to slay, thou dost not know 'Where lies the heart of Magnus. Thou dost haste To deal the blow as he would have it fall. 'Le By art nefarious: the shrivelled skin Draws tight upon the bone; and poisonous juice Gives to the face its lineaments in death. Last of thy race, thou base degenerate boy, About to perishHe was drowned in attempting to escape in the battle on the Nile in the following autumn. soon, and yield the throne To thine incestuous sister; while the Prince From Macedon here in consecrated vault Now rests, and ashes of the kings are closed In mighty pyramids, and lofty tombs Of thine unworthy fathers mar