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<strong>The</strong>ir merits, nor their honours, are<br />

the same.<br />

But mine, and every god's peculiar<br />

grace<br />

Hector deserves, <strong>of</strong> all the Trojan<br />

race:<br />

Still on our shrines his grateful <strong>of</strong>ferings<br />

lay,<br />

(<strong>The</strong> only honours men to gods can<br />

pay,)<br />

Nor ever from our smoking altar<br />

ceased<br />

<strong>The</strong> pure libation, and the holy<br />

feast:<br />

Howe'er by stealth to snatch the<br />

corse away,<br />

We will not: <strong>The</strong>tis guards it night<br />

and day.<br />

But haste, and summon to our<br />

courts above<br />

<strong>The</strong> azure queen; let her persuasion<br />

move

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