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With mutual honour, and with mutual<br />

shame!<br />

Think <strong>of</strong> your hopes, your fortunes;<br />

all the care<br />

Your wives, your infants, and your<br />

parents share:<br />

Think <strong>of</strong> each living father's reverend<br />

head;<br />

Think <strong>of</strong> each ancestor with glory<br />

dead;<br />

Absent, by me they speak, by me<br />

they sue,<br />

<strong>The</strong>y ask their safety, and their<br />

fame, from you:<br />

<strong>The</strong> gods their fates on this one action<br />

lay,<br />

And all are lost, if you desert the<br />

day."<br />

He spoke, and round him breathed<br />

heroic fires;<br />

Minerva seconds what the sage inspires.

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