To Macedony Beline tooke the way,
Where raigned Ptolome the tyraunt fell,
Which did his sisters sonnes vniustly slay
Before their mother’s face, and her expell,
Arsinoe, that vsde him earst so well,
Yea, though before the Gods[609] hee sware to take her to his wife,
And loue her sonnes, [hee her expeld,] and them[610] bereft of life.
60.
Euen so that wicked king at first refusde
To purchase peace with price, or hostage sende,