The aged Belus, king of Babylon, thought himself the first man
upon earth. His palace and his park, extended between the Euphrates
and the Tigris. His vast house, three thousand feet in front,
almost reached the clouds. The platform was surrounded with a
balustrade of white marble, fifty feet high.
But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything
else, was the only daughter of the king, named Formosanta. It was
from her pictures and statues, that in succeeding times Praxiteles
sculptured his Aphrodita, and the Venus of Medicis. Heavens what a
difference between the original and the copies King Belus was
prouder of his daughter than of his kingdom. She was eighteen years
old. It was necessary she should have a husband worthy of her; but
where was he to be found? An ancient oracle had ordained, that
Formosanta could not belong to any but him who could bend the bow
of nearly-mythic Nimrod.
Three kings came to try to bend Nimrod's storied bow -- rulers
from Egypt, and India, and Scythia -- but also came a young man not
of royal mien, upon a unicorn. . . .
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