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LibriVox dot org. Recording by Phil Schamp, The twenty first

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Book of the Odyssees of Homer, translated by George Chapman.

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The argument Penelope proposeth now to him that draws ulysses

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boat her instant nuptials Ithacus, Eumus and Philetius gives charge

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for guarding of the gates, and he his shaft shoots

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through the plates. Another argument five, the nuptial vow and

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game rehearsed drawn is the beau. The steels are pierced. Pallas,

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the goddess with the sparkling eyes, excites Penelope to object

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the prize the beau and bright steals to the war's strength.

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And here began the strife and blood it length. She

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first ascended by a lofty stare her utmost chamber, of

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whose door her fair and half transparent hand received the key,

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bright brazen bitted, passing curiously, and at it hung a

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knob of ivory. And this did lead her where was

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strongly kept the treasure royal, in whose store lay heaped gold,

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brass and steel, engraven with infinite art. The crooked bow

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and arrow we quiver part of that rich magazine. In

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the quiver were arrows of number, sharp and sighing gear.

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The bow was given by kind euridities Ifhetus fashioned like

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the deities to young Ulysses, when within the roof of

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Wise or Silicus, their pass had proof of mutual meeting

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and Messina, where Ulysses claimed a debt to whose pay

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were the whole Messinian people bound, Since they from Ithaca

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had forced a wealthy prey of sheep and shepherds in

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their ships, they thrust three hundred sheep together, for whose

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just and instant rendery Old Laerti sent Ulysses his ambassador,

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that went a long way in the embassy, yet then

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bore but the foremost prime of youngest men, his father's

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sending first to that affair, his gravest counselors, and then

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his heir. Iphatus made his way there, having lost twelve

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female horse and mules, commended most for use of burthen,

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which were after cause of death and fate to him

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for past all laws of hospitality. Jove's mighty son, skilled

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in great acts, was his confusion close by his house,

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though at that time his guest, respecting neither the opposed

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feast and hospitable table that in love he set before him,

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nor the voice of Jove, but seizing first his mares,

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he after slew his host himself from those mares. Search

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now grew Ulysses, known to Iphetus, who that beau, at

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their encounter, did in love bestow which great Eurytuses had

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and had borne before. Iphatus's father, who at death's sad

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door in his steep turrets, left it to his son.

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Ulysses gave him a keen falchion and mighty lance, and

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thus began they there their fatal loves. For after never

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were their mutual tables to each other known, because Jove's son,

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the unworthy part, had shown of slaughtering this godlike loving man,

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Euytus's son, who with that bow began and ended love

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to Ulysses, who so dear a gift, esteemed it that

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he would not bear in his black fleet that guest

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right to the war, but in fit memory of one

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so far in his affection, brought it home and kept

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his treasure with it, where till now it slept, And

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now the Queen of women had intent to give it use,

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and therefore made a cent up all the stairs height

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to the chamber door, whose shining leaves two bright pilasters

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bore to such a close, when together went it would

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resist the air. In their consent the ring she took then,

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and did draw aside a bar that ran within, and

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then implied the key into the lock, which gave a sound.

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The bolt, then, shooting as in pasture ground a bull

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doth low and make the valley's ring so loud the

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lock hummed when it loosed the spring, and ope the

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doors flew in. She went along the lofty chamber that

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was boarded strong with heart of oak, which many years

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ago the architect did smooth and polish, so that now

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as then he made it freshly shine, and tried the

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eveness of it with a line. There stood in this

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room presses that enclosed robes odoriferous, by which reposed the

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bow upon pins. Nor from it far hung the round quiver,

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glittering like a star, both which her white extended hand

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took down. Then sat she low and made her lap

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a crown of both these relics, which she wept to see,

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and cried quite out with loving memory of her dear

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lif to who's worth paying, then kind debts an ow

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she left, and to the men a vowed to her

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wooing brought the crooked bow and shaft, receiving quiver that

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did flow with arrows beating sighs up where they fell,

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then with another chest replete as well with games won

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by the king of steel and brass. Her maids attended

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past whom, making pass to where her wooers were, she

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made her stay amidst the fair haul door, and kept

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the ray of her bright countenance, hid with veils so

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thin that though they seemed to expose, they let love in.

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Her maids on both sides stood, And thus she spake.

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Hear me, ye wooers, that a pleasure take to do

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me sorrow, and my house invade to eat and drink,

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as if it were only made to serve your rapines.

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My lord long away, and you allowed no color for

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your stay, but his still absence striving who shall frame

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me for his wife? And since tis made a game,

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I proposed divine ulysses bow for that great masterpiece to

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which ye vow he that can draw it with least

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show to strive, and through these twelve axe heads and

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arrow drive him. Will I follow? And this house forego

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that nourished me a maid, now furnish show with all

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things fit, and which I so esteem that I shall

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still live in it in my dream this said she

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made Eumieus give it them. He took and laid it by,

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and wept for woe, And like him wept for Letius.

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When the bow of which is king was bare. He

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beheld their tears, and Tenous's manhood much refelled, and said, ye,

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rustic fools, that still each day your minds give over

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to this vain dismay. Why weep ye wretches. And the

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widow's eyes tempt with renewed thought that would otherwise dispose

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her sorrows. Since her lord is dead and tears are idle,

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Sit and eat your breadth, nor whisper more a word,

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Or get ye gone, and weep without doors. Let this

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bow alone to our outmet contention, For I fear the

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bow will scarce, yeld draft to any here here. No

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such man lives as Leert's son amongst us. All I

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knew him thought puts on his looks sight now methinks,

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though then a child thus showed his words doubt. Yet

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his hopes instilled his strength. The stretcher of Ulysses string,

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and his steels piercer, But his shaft must sing through

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his pierced pallet. First, whom he so wronged in his

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free roof, and made the rest ill tongued against his virtues.

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Then the sacred heat that inspired his son did further

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set their confidence on fire, And said, O, friends, job

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hath bereft my wits? The queen intends, though I must

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grant her wise ere long to leave Ulysses court and

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to her bed receive some other lord. Yet notwithstanding I

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am forced to lie, laugh and set my pleasures hide

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like one mad sick. But woors, since ye have an

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object for your trials, now so brave as all the

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broad Acaean earth exceeds, as sacred pylos, as the argive breeds,

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as black a pyrus, as my Sena's birth, and as

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the more famed Ethochensian earth, all which yourselves well know

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and oft have said. For what need hath my mother

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of my aid in her advancement? Tender no excuse for

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least delay, nor too much time, profuse in stay to

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draw this bow. But draw it straight, shoot, and the

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steel's pierce. Make all see how slight you make these

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poor bars to so rich a prize. No eagerer. Yet come,

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all my faculty shall try the bow's strength and the

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pierced steel. I will not, for my reverend mother feel

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the sorrows that I know will seize my heart to

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see her follow any and depart from her so long

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held home. But first extend the bow and arrow to

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her tender de end. For I am only to succeed

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my sire and guard of his games, and let none

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aspire to their besides possession. This said his purple robe

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he cast off by he laid his well edged sword,

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and first a several pit he digged for every axe,

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and strengthened it with earth, close rammed about it on

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a roue, he set them of one height by a

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line he drew along the whole twelve, and so orderly

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did every deed belonging. Yet his eye never before beholding,

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how twas done that in a maze stood all his

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lookers on. Then stood he near the door, and proved

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to draw the stubborn bow. Thrice tried and thrice gave

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law to his uncrowned attempts. The fourth assay with all

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force offering which a sign gave stay given by his father,

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though he showed a mine as if he stood right

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heartily inclined to perfect them exploit. When all was done

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in only drift. To set the wooers on his weakness.

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Yet confessed, he said, O shame, I either shall be

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ever of no name but prove a wretch, or else

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I am too young and must not now presume on

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power so strong as sinews yet more growing man graft

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to turn a man quite over with a shaft. Besides

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to men whose nerves are best prepared, All great adventures,

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at first proof are hard. But come, you, stronger men,

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attempt this bow, and let us end our labor. Thus

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below a well joined board he laid it, and close

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by the brightly headed shaft, then throned his thigh amidst

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his late left seat, and tinawas then bade all arise,

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But first who did sustain the cup's state ever, and

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did sacrifice before they ate? Still, and that man bade rise,

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since on the other's right hand he was placed, because

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as he held the right hands, rising graced with best success.

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Still this discretion won supreme applause, and first rose Enops's son, Liodes,

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that was priest to all. The rest sat lowest with

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the cup still, and their jest could never like. But

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ever was the man that checked their follies. And he

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now began to taste the bow. The sharp shaft took,

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tugged hard, and held aloft until he quite had marred

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His delicate tender fingers could not stir the churlish string,

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who therefore did refer the game to others, saying that

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the same bow, in his presage, would prove the overthrow

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of many a chief man. There, nor thought the fate

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was any wit austere, since death's short date were much

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the better taken than long life without the object of

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their amorous strife, from whom they had burned out so

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many days to find still other nothing but delays obtaining

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in them, and affirm that now hope to have her.

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But when that tough bow they all had tried and

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seen the utmost done, they must rest please to cease.

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And now some one of all their other fair veiled

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Grecian dames with gifts and dour and high mineal flames

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let her love light to him that most will give,

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and whom the nuptial destiny did drive. Thus laid he

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on the well, joined, polish'd board the bow, and bright

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piled shaft, and then restored his seat his right to him.

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Antinomus gave bitter language and reproved him. Thus what words

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lyodes pass thy speeches guard that tis a work to bear,

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and set so hard they set up my disdain. This

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bow must end the best of us, since thy arms

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cannot lend the string least motion. Thy mother's throes brought

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never forth thy arms to draft of bows or knitting

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shafts off. Though thou canst not draw the sturdy plant.

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Thou art to us no law Ballanthius, light a fire

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and set thereat a chair in cushions, and that mass

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of fat that lies within, bring out that we may

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set our pages to this bow, to see it at

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het and suppled with the suet, and then we may

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give it draft and pay this great decree utmost performance.

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He a mighty fire, gave instant flame, put into act

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the entire command, laid on him, chair and cushions set

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laid on the bow, which straked the page's het chafed,

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suppled with the suet to their most, and still was

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all their unctuous labor lost, All woo Were's strengths, too

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indigent and poor to draw that bow and Tinous's arms

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it tore, and great eurymicuses theo both clear best. Yet

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both it tired and made them glad to rest. Forth.

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Then went both the swains, and after them divine Ulysses,

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when being past the extreme of all the gates, with

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winning words, he tried their love, and this asked, shall

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my counsels hide their depths from you? My mind would

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gladly know if suddenly Ulysses had his vow made good

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for home, and had some God to guide his steps

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and strokes to wreak these Wooer's pride, would your aides

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join on his part or with theirs? How stand your

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hearts affected? They made prayers that some god would please

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to return their lord. He then should see how far

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they would afford their lives for his. He, seeing their truth, replied,

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I am your Lord. Though many a sufferances tried arrive

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now here, whom twenty years have held from forth my country,

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Yet are not conceal'd from my sure knowledge Your desires

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to see my safe return. Of all the company now

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serving here, besides not one but you mine ears hath witnessed,

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willing to bestow their wishes of my life, so long

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held dead. I therefore vow, which shall be perfected, that

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have go God, please beneath my hand, to leave these

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wars lifeless. Ye shall both receive wives from that hand

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and means, and near to me have houses built to you,

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and both shall be as friends and brothers to my

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only son. And that ye may well know me and

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be one to that assurance the infallible sign. The white

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toothed boar gave this marked knee of mine, when in

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Parnassus he was held in chase by me and by

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my famous grandsire's race. I'll let you see, thus severed

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he his weed, from that his wound, and every word

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had deed in their sure knowledges, which made them cast

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their arms about him. His broad breast embraced his neck,

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and shoulders kissed, and him as well did those true

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powers of human love compel to kiss their heads and hands,

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and to their moan had sent the free light of

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the cheerful sun, had not ulysses broke the ruth and said,

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cease tears and sorrows, lest we prove displayed by some

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that issue from the house, and they relate to those within.

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Take each his way, not altogether in but one by one.

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First I, then you, and then see this be done

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the envious wooer's will by no means give the offer

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of the bow an arrow leave to come at me

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spite then their pride, do thou, my good Eumaeus, bring

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both shaft and bow to my hands proof and charge

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the maids. Before that, Instantly they shut every door that

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they themselves. If any tumult rise beneath my roofs by

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any that envies my will to undertake the game may

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gain no passage forth, but close at work contain with

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all free quiet, or at least constrain'd. And therefore my

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feletius see maintained. When close the gates are shut, their

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closure fast to which end be it thy soul work

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to cast their chains before them. This said in he

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led took for his seat, and then they seconded his

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entry with their own. Then took in hand Eurymicus the bow,

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made close his stand aside the fire, at whose heat

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here and there he warmed and suppled it yet could

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not steer to any draft the string with all his art,

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and therefore swell'd in him his glorious heart, affirming that

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himself and all his friends had cause to grieve, not

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only that their ends they missed in marriage, since enough

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besides kind Grecian dames there lived to be their brides

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in Ithaca and other bordering towns, but that to all

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time's future their renowns would stand disparaged. If Ulysses bow

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they could not draw, and yet his wife would woo.

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And Tinamus answered that there could n't sue no shame

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at all to them, for well he knew that this

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day was kept wholly to the sun by all the city,

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and there should be done no such profane act. Therefore

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bade lay by the bow for that day, but the

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mastery of axes that were set up still might stand,

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since that no labor was nor any hand would offer

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to invade ulysses house to take or touch with surreptitious

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or violent hand what there was left for use. He

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therefore bade the cup bear infuse wine to the bowls,

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that so with sacrifice they might let rest the shooting

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exercise and in the morning make Melanthius bring the chief

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goats of his herd, that to the king of bows

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and archers they might burn the thighs for good success,

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and then attempt the prize. The rest sat pleased with this,

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the herald strait poured water on their hands. Each page

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did wait with his crowned cup of wine, served every

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man till all were satisfied, and then began ulysses plot

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of his close purpose. Thus hear me, ye much renowned

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Euremicus and King Antinous in chief, who dwell and with

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Decorum's sacred doth compel this day's observance, and to let

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down the bow all this light giving gods their own,

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the morning's labor, God the more will bless and strength

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bestow where he himself shall please. Against which time, let

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me presume to pray your favors with the rest, that

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this essay may my old arms prove trying if there

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lie in my poor powers the same activity that long

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since crown them, or if needy fare and desolate wanderings

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have the web worn bear of my life's thread at

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all parts, that no more can furnish these affairs as

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heretofore this het their spleens past measure blown with fear,

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lest his loathe temples would the garland wear of that

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bow's draft. An tenous using speech to this sour purpose,

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Thou most erret wretch of all guess, breathing in no

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least degree graced with a human soul. It serves not

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THEE to feast in peace with us, take equal share

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of what we reach to sit, and all things here

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that we speak freely, which no begging guests did ever yet.

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But thou must make request to mix with us in

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merit of the Queen. But wine inflames thee that hath

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ever been the bane of men, whoever yet would take

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the excess it offers, and the mean forsake wine spoiled

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the centaur great Urisi in guest rights with a mighty

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minded son of boldic Scion, in his way to war

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against the Lapithies, who driven as far as madness with

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the bold effects of wine, did outrage to his kind host,

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and declined other heroes from him. Feasted there with so

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much anger that they left their cheer and dragged him

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forth the forecourt. Slit his nose, cropped both his ears,

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and in the ill disposed his mind, then suffered drew

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the fatal day on his head with his host. For

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thence the fray between the Centaurs and the Lapithies had

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moral act. But he, for his excess in spoil of wine,

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fared worse himself as thou for thy law arge cups,

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if thy arms draw the bow, my mind foretells, shall fear.

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For not a man of all our consort, that in

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wisdom can boast any fit share will take prayers. Then,

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but to ekeathus, the most stern of men, a black

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sail freight with thee whose worst of ill be sure

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is past all ransom set. Then still drink temperately, and

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never more contend with men your youngers. This the queen

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did end with her defense of him, and told his

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foe it was not fair nor equal to overcrow the

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poorest guests. Her son pleased to entertain in his free

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turrets with so proud a strain of threats and bravings,

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asking if he thought that if the stranger to his

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arms had brought the stubborn bow down, he should marry

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her and bear her home, And said himself should air

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in no such hope, nor of them all the best

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that grieved at any good, she did her guests should

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banquet there, since it in no sort showed no blessed

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in them, nor paid her what she owed her own

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free rule there. This Eurymicus confirmed and said, nor feeds

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it hope in us I Carrius's daughter to solemnize rights

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of nuptials with thee nor in noblest sights it can

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show comely. But to our respects the rumor, both of

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sexes and of sects amongst the people would breed shame

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and fear lest any worst. Greek said, see, men that

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were of mean deservings will presume to aspire to his

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wife's bed, whom all men did admire for fame and

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merit could not draw his bow, and yet his wife

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had foolish pride to woo when strait and aerond beggar

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comes and draws the bow with ease, performing all the

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laws the game besides contained. And this would thus prove

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both in dignity and shame to us. The queen replied,

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the fame of men I see bears much price in

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your great supposed degree. Yet who can prove amongst the

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people great that of one so esteemed of them? The

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seat doth so to fame and ruin and beside, with

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what right is this guest thus vilified in your high censures,

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when the man in blood is well composed and great,

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his parents good, And therefore give the bow to him

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to try his birth and breeding by his chivalry. If

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his arms draw it, and that Phoebus stands so great

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a glory to his strength, my hands shall add this,

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girden every sort of weed, a two edged sword and lance,

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to keep him freed from dogs and men hereafter, and

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dismiss his worth. To what place tends that heart of

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his Her son gave answer that it was a wrong

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to his free sway in all things that belonged to

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guard of that house, to demand the bow of any war,

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and the use bestow upon the stranger, For the bow

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was his to give or to withhold, no masteries of

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her proposing giving any power to impair his right in things,

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for any war, or any that rough ithach afford any

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that elis, of which no man's words nor powers should

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curb him. Stood, he so inclined to see the beau

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in absolute gift, resign to that his guest to bear

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and use at will, And therefore bade his mother keep

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her still amongst her women at her rock and loom

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bows were for men, and this bou did become past

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all men's his disposure, since his sire left it to him,

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and all the house entire. She stood dismayed at this,

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and in her mind his wide's words laid up standing

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so inclined as he had willed, with all her women,

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going up to her chamber, there her tears bestowing, as

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every night she did on her loved lord, till sleep

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and pallace. Her fit rest restored the beau Eumius took

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and bore away, which up in tumult and almost in frey,

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put all the wars. One inquiring, thus, whither rogue abject

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wilt thou bear from us that beau propose lay down?

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Or I protest thy dog shall eat thee that thou

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nourishest to guard thy swine amongst whom left of all

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thy life shall leave thee. If the festival we now

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observe to Phoebus, may our zeals grace with his aid,

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and all the deities else. This threat made good Ubius

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yield the bow to his late place, not knowing what

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might grow from such a multitude, and then fell on

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Telemachus with threats, and said sit gone that bow. Yet

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further tis no servant's part to serve too many masters.

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Raise your heart and bear it off, lest though you're younger,

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yet with stones, I pelt you to the field with it.

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If you and I close, I shall prove too strong.

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I wish as much too hard for all this throng

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the gods would make me. I should quickly send some

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after with just sorrow to their end. They waste my victuals,

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so and ply my cup, and do me such shrewd

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turned still. This put up the woers all in laugh,

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and put down their angers to him, that so late

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were grown so grave and bloody. Which resolved that fear

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of good Eumaeus, who did take and bear the king

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the bow, called nurse and bade her make the doors

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all sure, that if men's tumults take the ears of

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some within, they may not fly, but keep at work still.

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Close and silently these words put wings to her, and

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close she put the chamber door. The court gates then

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were shut by kind Peletius, who straight did go out

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from the hall, and in the portico found laid the

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gable of a ship composed of spongy bow rushes, with

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which he closed in winding round about them. The court

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Gates then took his place again to view the fates

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that quickly followed. When he came he saw Ulysses viewing ere.

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He tried to draw the famous bow, which every way

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he moved up and down, turning it, in which he

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proved the plight It was in fearing, chiefly lest the

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horns we eat with worms in so long rest. But

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what his thoughts intended turning so and keeping such a

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search about the bow? The war's little knowing fell to jest,

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and said, pass doubt, he is a man professed in

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bowyer's craft, and seize quite through the wood or something

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certain to be understood. There is in this his turning

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of it still a cunning rogue. He is at any ill,

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then spake another proud one would to heaven, I might

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at will get gold, till he hath given that bow

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his draft. With these sharp jests, did these delightsome wooers

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their fatal humors please? But when the wise Ulysses once

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had laid his fingers on it, and to proof surveyed

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the still sound of plight, it held as one of

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skill in song and of the harp, doth at his will,

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in tuning of his instrument, extend a string out with

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his pen, touch all, and lend to every well wreathed

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string his perfect sound. Struck altogether with such ease, drew

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round the king the bow. Then twanged he up the string, that,

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as a swallow in the air doth sing with no

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continued tune, but pausing still twinks out her scattered voice

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in accent shrill, so sharp the string sung when he

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gave it touch, once, having bent and drawn it, which

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so much amazed the wars that their colors went and

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came most grievously. And then Jove rent the air with thunder,

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which at heart did cheer the now enough sustaining traveler,

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that Jove again would his attempt enable. Then took he

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into hand from off the table the first drawn arrow,

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and a number more spent shortly on the wars. But

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this one he measured by his arm, as if not

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known the length were to him. Knocked it then and drew,

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and through the axes at first hole flew the steel

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charged arrow, which, when he had done, he thus bespake

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the Prince. You have not one disgrace yet, by your guest,

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for I have struck the mark I shot at, and

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no such toil took in wearying the bow with fat

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and fire, as did the wooers, yet reserved entire Thank Heaven,

471
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my strength is, and myself am tried. No man to

472
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be so basely vilified as these men please to think me.

473
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But free way take that and all their pleasures. And

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while day holds her torch to you, and the hour

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of feast hath now full date, give banquet, and the

476
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rest poem and harp that grace a well filled board.

477
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This said he beckoned to his son, whose sword he

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straight girt to him, took to his hand his lance,

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and complete armed did to his sire advance. End of

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the twenty first book