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But throng now her, now ther, among hem bothe,

That everich other slough, so wer they wrothe.

For whan Amphiorax and Tydeus,

Ipomedon, Parthonopee also

Were dede, and slayn [was] proud Campaneus,

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And whan the wrecches Thebans, bretheren two,

Were slayn, and king Adrastus hoom a-go,

So desolat stood Thebes and so bare,