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608 THE TENTH BUKE
Bot tuke liys flycht vp from the erd in hy,
And with a fwouchand voce focht in the fky.
Hys fon, this tyde, havand hys fallofchippys
Diftribut equaly into fyndry fchippys,
5 Amang the navy and the flote at large,
With ayris rollys furth hys buftuus barge,
Clepyt Centaurus, and ithandly fyne he
Dryvys throu fludis of the ftormy fee :
Byg of ftatur ftude he lyke to feght,
in Boftand the ftreme with ballaft of huge weght,
And with hys lang and kifty ballyngar
Ourilydis the deip fludis in thar fair.
The nobill Ocnus from hys natyve land
A fair army aflemlyt brocht at hand,
15 Son of God Tibris, the Tufcane ryver,
Beget apon Manthus the lady cleir,
That was baith nymphe and famus prophetes :
Thys Ocnus was the ilk man quhilk expres
Of Mantua the cite dyd he wall,
20 And eftir hys faid moderis name can call
Mantua, myghty of aid ancyftry
And forfaderis : bot hys geneology
Was not of ane kynrent cummyn all ;
For that town had thre clannys principall,
25 And, vnder euery clan or trybe of tha,
War other fobyr famyllis twys twa :
Mantua eik was cheif and principal bed
Till all thir pepill wonnyng in that fled,
Takand thar fors and hardyment ilkane
30 From the IjTiage and nobill blude Tufcane.