Ne frendship would admit[614] (as hee the herouldes tolde)
Except the enmies layde downe weapons, them submit,
No truce with them, no peace there were, nor no agreement fit.[615]
62.
King Beline smilde to heare the heedelesse King,
Rash witted so selfe wild, and after this
The Dardanes offered twenty thousand bring
Of souldiers armde for ayde, to ioyne with his:
Quoth Ptolome, now lost[616] all Macedony is,
Yf we once conquerde [all the East] by Alexander’s hande,