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[pg<br />

008]<br />

Though mine the sweat and danger<br />

<strong>of</strong> the day.<br />

Some trivial present to my ships I<br />

bear:<br />

Or barren praises pay the wounds<br />

<strong>of</strong> war.<br />

But know, proud monarch, I'm thy<br />

slave no more;<br />

My fleet shall waft me to <strong>The</strong>ssalia's<br />

shore:<br />

Left by Achilles on the Trojan<br />

plain,<br />

What spoils, what conquests, shall<br />

Atrides gain?"<br />

To this the king: "Fly, mighty warrior!<br />

fly;<br />

Thy aid we need not, and thy<br />

threats defy.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re want not chiefs in such a<br />

cause to fight,

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