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[pg<br />

398]<br />

Now shakes his lance, and braves<br />

the dread <strong>of</strong> Troy.<br />

"<strong>The</strong> life you boasted to that javelin<br />

given,<br />

Prince! you have miss'd. My fate<br />

depends on Heaven,<br />

To thee, presumptuous as thou art,<br />

unknown,<br />

Or what must prove my fortune, or<br />

thy own.<br />

Boasting is but an art, our fears to<br />

blind,<br />

And with false terrors sink another's<br />

mind.<br />

But know, whatever fate I am to try,<br />

By no dishonest wound shall Hector<br />

die.<br />

I shall not fall a fugitive at least,<br />

My soul shall bravely issue from<br />

my breast.

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