6 But laid them up in his immortal scrine,
scrine > {Casket or cabinet for archival papers}
7 Where they for ever incorrupted dwelt:
incorrupted > uncorrupted
8 The wars he well remembered of King Ninus,
King Ninus > (Of Assyria, fl. c. 1250 BC. The reputed founder of
Nineveh)
9 Of old Assaracus, and Inachus divine.
Assaracus > (A mythical king of Phrygia, son of Tros (the founder of
Troy); the great-grandfather of Aeneas. See Iliad 20.231-40)
Inachus > (A river-god, king of Argos, father of Io)
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The yeares of Nestor nothing were to his,
2 Ne yet Mathusalem, though longest liu'd;
For he remembred both their infancies:
4 Ne wonder then, if that he were depriu'd
Of natiue strength now, that he them suruiu'd.
6 His chamber all was hangd about with rolles,
And old records from auncient times deriu'd,
8 Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolles,
That were all worme-eaten, and full of canker holes.