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Remains unask'd; what time the<br />

rites require<br />

To inter thy Hector? For, so long<br />

we stay<br />

Our slaughtering arm, and bid the<br />

hosts obey."<br />

"If then thy will permit (the monarch<br />

said)<br />

To finish all due honours to the<br />

dead,<br />

This <strong>of</strong> thy grace accord: to thee are<br />

known<br />

<strong>The</strong> fears <strong>of</strong> Ilion, closed within her<br />

town;<br />

And at what distance from our<br />

walls aspire<br />

<strong>The</strong> hills <strong>of</strong> Ide, and forests for the<br />

fire.<br />

Nine days to vent our sorrows I request,<br />

<strong>The</strong> tenth shall see the funeral and<br />

the feast;

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