As endlessly it shut his eyes, so, open’d, on the ground It pour’d his entrails. As his foe went then suffic’d away, Thoas Ætolius threw a dart, that did his pile convey, Above his nipple, through his lungs; when, quitting his stern part, He clos’d with him, and, from his breast first drawing out his dart, His sword flew in, and by the midst it wip’d his belly out; So took his life, but left his arms; his friends so flock’d about, And thrust forth lances of such length before their slaughter’d king, Which, though their foe were big and strong, and often brake the ring Forg’d of their lances, yet (enforc’d) he left th’ affected prise. The Thracian and Epeian dukes, laid close with closéd eyes By either other, drown’d in dust; and round about the plain, All hid with slaughter’d carcasses, yet still did hotly reign The martial planet; whose effects had any eye beheld, Free and unwounded (and were led by Pallas through the field, To keep off jav’lins, and suggest the least fault could be found) He could not reprehend the fight, so many strew’d the ground. THE END OF THE FOURTH BOOK. [1] Virgil useth these verses. THE FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER’S ILIADS THE ARGUMENT King Diomed (by Pallas’ spirit inspir’d With will and pow’r) is for his acts admir’d, Mere men, and men deriv’d from Deities, And Deities themselves, he terrifies. Adds wounds to terrors. His inflamed lance Draws blood from Mars, and Venus. In a trance He casts Æneas, with a weighty stone; Apollo quickens him, and gets him gone. Mars is recur’d by Pæon, but by Jove Rebuk’d for authoring breach of human love. ANOTHER ARGUMENT In Epsilon, Heav’n’s blood is shed By sacred rage of Diomed.