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[pg<br />

291]<br />

No longer flames the lance <strong>of</strong> Tydeus'<br />

son;<br />

No more your general calls his heroes<br />

on:<br />

Hector, alone, I hear; his dreadful<br />

breath<br />

Commands your slaughter, or proclaims<br />

your death.<br />

Yet now, Patroclus, issue to the<br />

plain:<br />

Now save the ships, the rising fires<br />

restrain,<br />

And give the Greeks to visit Greece<br />

again.<br />

But heed my words, and mark a<br />

friend's command,<br />

Who trusts his fame and honours in<br />

thy hand,<br />

And from thy deeds expects the<br />

Achaian host<br />

Shall render back the beauteous<br />

maid he lost:

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