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[pg<br />

441]<br />

Forbade assistance, and enjoy'd the<br />

fire.<br />

For him I serve, <strong>of</strong> Myrmidonian<br />

race;<br />

One ship convey'd us from our native<br />

place;<br />

Polyctor is my sire, an honour'd<br />

name,<br />

Old like thyself, and not unknown<br />

to fame;<br />

Of seven his sons, by whom the lot<br />

was cast<br />

To serve our prince, it fell on me,<br />

the last.<br />

To watch this quarter, my adventure<br />

falls:<br />

For with the morn the Greeks attack<br />

your walls;<br />

Sleepless they sit, impatient to engage,<br />

And scarce their rulers check their<br />

martial rage."

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