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[pg<br />

173]<br />

PROSERPINE.<br />

"Divine Achilles! wilt thou then retire,<br />

And leave our hosts in blood, our<br />

fleets on fire?<br />

If wrath so dreadful fill thy ruthless<br />

mind,<br />

How shall thy friend, thy Phoenix,<br />

stay behind?<br />

<strong>The</strong> royal Peleus, when from<br />

Pthia's coast<br />

He sent thee early to the Achaian<br />

host;<br />

Thy youth as then in sage debates<br />

unskill'd,<br />

And new to perils <strong>of</strong> the direful<br />

field:<br />

He bade me teach thee all the ways<br />

<strong>of</strong> war,

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