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Women alone, when in the streets<br />

they jar,<br />

Perhaps excel us in this wordy war;<br />

Like us they stand, encompass'd<br />

with the crowd,<br />

And vent their anger impotent and<br />

loud.<br />

Cease then—Our business in the<br />

field <strong>of</strong> fight<br />

Is not to question, but to prove our<br />

might.<br />

To all those insults thou hast <strong>of</strong>fer'd<br />

here,<br />

Receive this answer: 'tis my flying<br />

spear."<br />

He spoke. With all his force the<br />

javelin flung,<br />

Fix'd deep, and loudly in the buckler<br />

rung.<br />

Far on his outstretch'd arm, Pelides<br />

held

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