Then  straight  he  forth  his  servant  Morpheus  ^  call'd,
"  On  Higgins  here  thou  must"  (quoth  he)  "attend;
The  Britain  Peers  to  bring  (whom  Fortune  thraU'd)
From  Lethean  lake,  and  th'  ancient  shapes  them  lend ;
That  they  may  shew  why,  how,  they  took  their  end."
"  I  T\ill"  (quoth  Morpheus)  "  shew  him  what  they  were ;"
And  so  methought  I  saw  them  straight  appear.
One  after  one  they  came  in  strange  attu-e.
But  some  with  wounds  and  blood  were  so  disguis'd.
You  scarcely  could  by  reason's  aid  aspii'e
To  know  what  war-  such  sundi'y  deaths  dcvis'd;
And  severally  those  Piiuces  were  surpris'd.
Of  fonner  state  these  states  gave  ample  show,
Which  did  relate  thou-  lives  and  overthi-ow.
Of  some  the  faces  bold  and  bodies  wore

Distain'd  with  woad,  and  Tui-kish  hc.irds  they  had :    lOo

On  th"  over  lips  mutchatoes ''  long  of  hair.
And  ^^■ild  they  sccm'd.  as  men  despairing  mad ;

Theii-  looks  might  make  a  constant  heart  full  sad,

"  Thnn,  then.
3  Morpheus,  god  of  dreams,  was  so  called  from  the  shapes  seen  in
dreams.    Greek  fiopiptj,  form,  shape,  figui-e.
*  Mutchatoes,  comipted  from  Italian  "  mustacchio."  or  Spanish
"  mostacho."  Our  woi'd  was  not  first  taken  from  the  French  "  mous-
tache," and  trace  of  the  final  o  is  common  still  in  oui'  pronunciation
of  it.
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And  yet  I  could  not  so  forsake  the  vio^T,

Nor  presence,  ere  their  minds  I  likewise  knew.
For  Morpheus  bade  them  each  in  order  tell
Theii-  names  and  lives,  their  haps  and  hapless  days
And  by  what  moans  from  Fortune's  wheel  they  fell.
Which  did  them  erst  imto  such  honors  raise.
Wherewith  the  fii-st  not  making  moe  delays,  110

A  noble  Prince,  broad  woimded  breast  that  bare.
