The Toad And Spyder. A Duell Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The Toad And Spyder. A Duell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Upon a day when the Dog star	A
Unto the world proclaim'd a war	B
And poyson bark'd from black throat	C
And from his jaws infection shot	D
Under a deadly hen bane shade	E
With slime infernal mists are made	E
Met the two dreaded enemies	F
Having their weapons in their eyes	G
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First from his den rolls forth that load	H
Of spite and hate the speckl'd toad	H
And from his chaps a foam doth spawn	I
Such as the loathed three heads yawn	J
Defies his foe with a fell spit	K
To wade through death to meet with it	K
Then in his self the lymbeck turns	L
And his elixir'd poyson urns	L
Arachne once the fear oth' maid	E
Coelestial thus unto her pray'd	E
Heaven's blew ey'd daughter thine own mother	M
The Python killing Sun's thy brother	M
Oh thou from gods that didst descend	N
With a poor virgin to contend	N
Shall seed of earth and hell ere be	O
A rival in thy victorie	M
Pallas assents for now long time	P
And pity had clean rins'd her crime	P
When straight she doth with active fire	M
Her many legged foe inspire	M
Have you not seen a charact lie	Q
A great cathedral in the sea	O
Under whose Babylonian walls	L
A small thin frigot almshouse stalls	L
So in his slime the toad doth float	C
And th' spyder by but seems his boat	C
And now the naumachie begins	L
Close to the surface her self spins	L
Arachne when her foe lets flye	Q
A broad side of his breath too high	Q
That's over shot the wisely stout	R
Advised maid doth tack about	R
And now her pitchy barque doth sweat	S
Chaf'd in her own black fury wet	S
Lasie and cold before she brings	L
New fires to her contracted stings	L
And with discolour'd spumes doth blast	T
The herbs that to their center hast	T
Now to the neighb'ring henbane top	U
Arachne hath her self wound up	V
And thence from its dilated leaves	L
By her own cordage downwards weaves	L
And doth her town of foe attack	W
And storms the rampiers of his back	W
Which taken in her colours spread	X
March to th' citadel of's head	X
Now as in witty torturing Spain	Y
The brain is vext to vex the brain	Y
Where hereticks bare heads are arm'd	Z
In a close helm and in it charm'd	Z
An overgrown and meagre rat	A2
That peece meal nibbles himself fat	A2
So on the toads blew checquer'd scull	B2
The spider gluttons her self full	C2
And vomiting her Stygian seeds	L
Her poyson on his poyson feeds	L
Thus the invenom'd toad now grown	D2
Big with more poyson than his own	D2
Doth gather all his pow'rs and shakes	L
His stormer in's disgorged lakes	L
And wounded now apace crawls on	I
To his next plantane surgeon	E2
With whose rich balm no sooner drest	A2
But purged is his sick swoln breast	A2
And as a glorious combatant	A2
That only rests awhile to pant	A2
Then with repeated strength and scars	L
That smarting fire him new to wars	L
Deals blows that thick themselves prevent	A2
As they would gain the time he spent	A2
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So the disdaining angry toad	A2
That calls but a thin useless load	A2
His fatal feared self comes back	W
With unknown venome fill'd to crack	W
Th' amased spider now untwin'd	A2
Hath crept up and her self new lin'd	A2
With fresh salt foams and mists that blast	A2
The ambient air as they past	A2
And now me thinks a Sphynx's wing	F2
I pluck and do not write but sting	F2
With their black blood my pale inks blent	A2
Gall's but a faint ingredient	A2
The pol'tick toad doth now withdraw	M
Warn'd higher in CAMPANIA	E2
There wisely doth intrenched deep	G2
His body in a body keep	G2
And leaves a wide and open pass	L
T' invite the foe up to his jaws	L
Which there within a foggy blind	A2
With fourscore fire arms were lin'd	A2
The gen'rous active spider doubts	L
More ambuscadoes than redoubts	L
So within shot she doth pickear	M
Now gall's the flank and now the rear	M
As that the toad in's own dispite	A2
Must change the manner of his fight	A2
Who like a glorious general	B2
With one home charge lets fly at all	H2
Chaf'd with a fourfold ven'mous foam	I2
Of scorn revenge his foes and 's own	E2
He seats him in his loathed chair	M
New made him by each mornings air	M
With glowing eyes he doth survey	J2
Th' undaunted hoast he calls his prey	J2
Then his dark spume he gred'ly laps	L
And shows the foe his grave his chaps	L
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Whilst the quick wary Amazon	E2
Of 'vantage takes occasion	E2
And with her troop of leggs carreers	L
In a full speed with all her speers	L
Down as some mountain on a mouse	L
On her small cot he flings his house	L
Without the poyson of the elf	K2
The toad had like t' have burst himself	K2
For sage Arachne with good heed	A2
Had stopt herself upon full speed	A2
And 's body now disorder'd on	E2
She falls to execution	E2
The passive toad now only can	E2
Contemn and suffer Here began	E2
The wronged maids ingenious rage	L2
Which his heart venome must asswage	L2
One eye she hath spet out strange smother	M
When one flame doth put out another	M
And one eye wittily spar'd that he	O
Might but behold his miserie	M
She on each spot a wound doth print	A2
And each speck hath a sting within't	O
Till he but one new blister is	L
And swells his own periphrasis	L
Then fainting sick and yellow pale	M2
She baths him with her sulph'rous stale	M2
Thus slacked is her Stygian fire	M
And she vouchsafes now to retire	M
Anon the toad begins to pant	A2
Bethinks him of th' almighty plant	A2
And lest he peece meal should be sped	A2
Wisely doth finish himself dead	A2
Whilst the gay girl as was her fate	A2
Doth wanton and luxuriate	A2
And crowns her conqu'ring head all or	M
With fatal leaves of hellebore	M
Not guessing at the pretious aid	A2
Was lent her by the heavenly maid	A2
The neer expiring toad now rowls	L
Himself in lazy bloody scrowls	L
To th' sov'raign salve of all his ills	L
That only life and health distills	L
But loe a terror above all	H2
That ever yet did him befall	H2
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Pallas still mindful of her foe	N2
Whilst they did with each fires glow	N2
Had to the place the spiders lar	M
Dispath'd before the ev'nings star	M
He learned was in Natures laws	L
Of all her foliage knew the cause	L
And 'mongst the rest in his choice want	A2
Unplanted had this plantane plant	A2
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The all confounded toad doth see	L
His life fled with his remedie	A2
And in a glorious despair	M
First burst himself and next the air	M
Then with a dismal horred yell	O2
Beats down his loathsome breath to hell	O2
	-
But what inestimable bliss	L
This to the sated virgin is	L
Who as before of her fiend foe	N2
Now full is of her goddess too	A2
She from her fertile womb hath spun	E2
Her stateliest pavillion	E2
Whilst all her silken flags display	J2
And her triumphant banners play	J2
Where Pallas she ith' midst doth praise	L
And counterfeits her brothers rayes	L
Nor will she her dear lar forget	A2
Victorious by his benefit	A2
Whose roof inchanted she doth free	L
From haunting gnat and goblin bee	L
Who trapp'd in her prepared toyle	J2
To their destruction keep a coyle	J2
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Then she unlocks the toad's dire head	A2
Within whose cell is treasured	A2
That pretious stone which she doth call	J2
A noble recompence for all	J2
And to her lar doth it present	A2
Of his fair aid a monument	A2