ABSTRACT
And feyning a solemnitie according to the guise Of Athens, at the which there might be none in any wise Besides hir husband and hir selfe, she banisht from the same Hir householde folke and sojourners, and such as guestwise
came. King Tereus sitting in the throne of his forefathers, fed And swallowed downe the selfe same flesh that of his bowels
bred. And he (so blinded was his heart) fetch Itys hither, sed. No lenger hir most cruell joy dissemble could the Queene, But of hir murther coveting the messenger to beene, She said: the thing thou askest for, thou hast within. About} He looked round, and asked where? To put him out of dout, As he was yet demaunding where, and calling for him: out Lept Philomele with scattred haire aflaight 1 like one that fled Had from some fray where slaughter was, and threw the
