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What Paris, author <strong>of</strong> the war, declares.<br />

<strong>The</strong> spoils and treasures he to Ilion<br />

bore<br />

(Oh had he perish'd ere they touch'd<br />

our shore!)<br />

He pr<strong>of</strong>fers injured Greece: with<br />

large increase<br />

Of added Trojan wealth to buy the<br />

peace.<br />

But to restore the beauteous bride<br />

again,<br />

This Greece demands, and Troy requests<br />

in vain.<br />

Next, O ye chiefs! we ask a truce to<br />

burn<br />

Our slaughter'd heroes, and their<br />

bones inurn.<br />

That done, once more the fate <strong>of</strong><br />

war be tried,<br />

And whose the conquest, mighty<br />

Jove decide!"

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