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[pg<br />

012]<br />

Grant that the gods his matchless<br />

force have given;<br />

Has foul reproach a privilege from<br />

heaven?"<br />

Here on the monarch's speech<br />

Achilles broke,<br />

And furious, thus, and interrupting<br />

spoke:<br />

"Tyrant, I well deserved thy galling<br />

chain,<br />

To live thy slave, and still to serve<br />

in vain,<br />

Should I submit to each unjust decree:—<br />

Command thy vassals, but command<br />

not me.<br />

Seize on Briseis, whom the Grecians<br />

doom'd<br />

My prize <strong>of</strong> war, yet tamely see resumed;

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