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Well hast thou known proud Troy's<br />

perfidious land,<br />

And well her natives merit at thy<br />

hand!<br />

Not one <strong>of</strong> all the race, nor sex, nor<br />

age,<br />

Shall save a Trojan from our<br />

boundless rage:<br />

Ilion shall perish whole, and bury<br />

all;<br />

Her babes, her infants at the breast,<br />

shall fall; 165<br />

A dreadful lesson <strong>of</strong> exampled fate,<br />

To warn the nations, and to curb the<br />

great!"<br />

<strong>The</strong> monarch spoke; the words,<br />

with warmth address'd,<br />

To rigid justice steel'd his brother's<br />

breast<br />

Fierce from his knees the hapless<br />

chief he thrust;

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