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In arts <strong>of</strong> counsel, and in speaking<br />

well!<br />

O would the gods, in love to<br />

Greece, decree<br />

But ten such sages as they grant in<br />

thee;<br />

Such wisdom soon should Priam's<br />

force destroy,<br />

And soon should fall the haughty<br />

towers <strong>of</strong> Troy!<br />

But Jove forbids, who plunges<br />

those he hates<br />

In fierce contention and in vain debates:<br />

Now great Achilles from our aid<br />

withdraws,<br />

By me provoked; a captive maid<br />

the cause:<br />

If e'er as friends we join, the Trojan<br />

wall<br />

Must shake, and heavy will the<br />

vengeance fall!

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