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[pg<br />

223]<br />

<strong>The</strong>n first Polydamas the silence<br />

broke,<br />

Long weigh'd the signal, and to<br />

Hector spoke:<br />

"How <strong>of</strong>t, my brother, thy reproach<br />

I bear,<br />

For words well meant, and sentiments<br />

sincere?<br />

True to those counsels which I<br />

judge the best,<br />

I tell the faithful dictates <strong>of</strong> my<br />

breast.<br />

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's<br />

right,<br />

In peace, in war, in council, and in<br />

fight;<br />

And all I move, deferring to thy<br />

sway,<br />

But tends to raise that power which<br />

I obey.

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