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Recording by Phil Schamp. The Fourteenth Book of the Odyssees

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of Homer, translated by George Chapman. The argument Ulysses meets

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amidst the field his swain Eumieus, who doth yield kind

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guest rights to him, and relate occurrence of his wronged estate.

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Another argument, z Ulysses fans for his true good. His

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pious swain's faith understood. But he the rough way took

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from forth the port through woods and hilltops, seeking the

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resort where pallis said divine Eumius lived, who of the

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fortunes that were first achieved by godlike Ithacus in household rights,

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had more true care than all his proselytes. He found

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him sitting in his cottage door, where he had raised

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to every airy bloor, a front of great height, and

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in such a place that round ye might behold of

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circular grace, a walk so wound about it, which the swain,

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in absence of his far gone sovereign had built himself

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without his queen's supply, or old the airtes to see

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safely lie his house. Had heard the inner part he

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wrought of stones, that thither his own labors brought, which

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with a hedge of thorn he fenced about, and compassed

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all the hedge with pails cleft out of sable oak,

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that here and there he fixed frequent and thick. Within

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his yard. He mixed twelve styes to lodges heard, and

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every stye had room and use for fifty swine to lie.

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But those were females. All the male swine slept with

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out doors. Ever, nor was there herd kept fair like

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the female's, since they suffered still great diminustion, He being

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forced to kill and send the fattest to the dainty

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feasts affected by the ungodly wooing guests. Their number therefore

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but three hundred were, and sixty by them mastiffs as

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austere as savage beasts lay, ever their fierce strain bred

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by the herdsman, a mere prince of men. Their number

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four himself was then applied in cutting forth a fair

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hued ox's height to fit his feet with shoes. His

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servants held guard of his swine, three here and there

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at field. The fourth he sent to city with a sow,

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which must of force be offered to the vow the

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woors made to all satiety to serve, which still they

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did those offerings ply. The fate born dogs to bark,

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took sudden view of Odysseus, and upon him flew with

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open mouth. He cutting to a pall a fierce dog's

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fury from his hand, let fall his staff to earth,

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and sat him careless down. And yet to him had

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won foul wrong been shown where most his right lay

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had not. Instantly the herdsman let his hide fall, and

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his cry, with frequent stones flung at the dogs repelled

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this way, and that their eager course they held. When

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through the entry passed. He thus did mourn, Oh Father,

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how soon had you near been torn by these rude dogs,

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whose hurt had branded me with much neglect of you.

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But Deity hath given so many other size and cares

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to my attendant state that well, unawares you might be

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hurt for me. For here I lie grieving and mourning

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for the majesty that godlike wanted to be ruling here.

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Since now I fat his swine for others, cheer where

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he perhaps airs hungry, up and down in countries, nations, cities,

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all unknown, if anywhere he lives yet, and doth see

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the sun's sweet beams. But father, follow me, that cheered

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with wine and food, you may disclose from whence you

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truly gore are and all the woes your age is

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subject to. This said he led into his cottage, and

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of osure spread a thickened hurdle, on whose top he

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strode a wild goat's shaggy skin, and then bestowed his

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own couch on it. That was soft and great ulysses

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joy to see him so entreat his uncouth presence, saying,

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Jove requite and all the immortal gods with that delight.

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Thou most desirous thy kind receipt of me, friend to

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human hospitality, Eumius answered, guest, if one much worse arrived

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here than thyself, it were a curse to my poor

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means to let a stranger taste contempt for fit food.

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Poor men and unplaced in free seats of their own,

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are all from Jove commended to our entertaining love. But

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poor is the entertainment I can give, Yet free and

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loving of such men as live the lives of servants,

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and are ill in fear. Where young lords govern, this

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is all the cheer they can afford a stranger. There

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was one that used to manage this now desert throne,

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to whom the gods did I return, that showed his

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curious favor to me, and bestowed possessions on me a

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most wished wife, a house and portion, and a servant's life,

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fit for the gift a gracious king should give, who

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still took pains himself, And God made thrive his personal endeavor,

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and to me his work the more increased in which

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you see I am now conversant, and therefore much his

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hand hath helped me. Had Heaven's will been such, he

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might have here grown old. But he is gone, and

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would to God the whole succession of Helen might go

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with him, since for her so many men died. Whose

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fate did confer my liege to Troy in Agamemnon's grace

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to spoil her people and her turret's race, This said

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his coat to him. He straight did gurd and to

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his sties went that contain'd his herd. From whence he

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took out too slew both and cut both fairly up

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a fire, inflam'd, and put to spit the joints, which

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roasted well. He set with spit and all to him

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that he might eat from thence his food in all

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the singing heat. Yet dredg'd it first with flour, then

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fill'd his cup with good sweet wine. Sat then and

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cheer'd him up. Eat now, my guest, such lean swine

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as our meat for us poor swains. The fat the

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woors eat, in whose minds no shame, no remorse doth move,

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though well they know the blessed Gods do not love

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on godly actions, but respect the right and in the

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works of pious men delight. But these are worse than impious.

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For those that bow to injustice and profess them foes

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to other nations, enter on their land. And Jupiter, to

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show his punishing hand upon the invaded for their penance,

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then gives favor to their though wicked man, to make

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their prey on them, who, having freight their ships with spoil,

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enough weigh anchor straight, and each man to his house.

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And yet even these, that powerful fear of God's just vengeance,

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sees even for that prize in which they so rejoice.

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But these men, knowing having heard the voice of God

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by some means that said death, hath reft. The ruler here,

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will never suffer left the unjust wooing of his wife,

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nor take her off an answer. And their own roofs

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make their fit retreats. But since on checked they may,

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they therefore will make still His goods their prey, without

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all spare or end. There is no day nor night

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sent out from God that ever they profane with one

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beast's blood or only two, but more make spoil of.

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And the wrongs they do in meets excess to wine

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as well extend which as excessively their riots spend, yet

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still leaves. For sure, his means were great, And no

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hero that hath choicest seat upon the fruitful neighbor continent,

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or in this isle itself so opulent, was as ulysses.

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No nor twenty such put all together, did possess so much.

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Whose herds and flocks I'll tell to every head upon

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the continent he daily fed twelve herds of oxen, no

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less flocks of sheep, and as many herds of swine,

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stalls large and steep, and equal sorts of goats, which

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tenants there, and his own shepherds kept then fed. He

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here eleven fair stalls of goats, whose food hath yield

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in the extreme part of a neighbor field. Each stall

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his herdsman hath an honest swain. Yet every one must

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every day sustain the load of one beast, the most

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fat and the best of all the stall fed to

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the wooer's feast. And I, for my part of the swine,

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I keep with more herdsman every day helps deep the

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war's appetites in blood of one the most select our

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choice can fall upon. To this, Ulysses gave good ear,

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and fed and drunk his wine, and vexed and ravish

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at his food for mere vexation seeds of all his

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stomach sowed to hear his goods go still to glut

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of woors. But his dinner done, and stomach fed to satisfaction.

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He drunk a full bowl, all of only wine, and

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gave it to the guardian of his swine, who took

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it and rejoiced to whom he said, O friend, who

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is at that so rich, hath paid price for thy service?

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Whose commended power thou sayest to grace. The Grecian conqueror

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at ilyon perished, Tell me it may fall. I knew

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some such the great God knows, and all the other

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deathless godheads, if I can, having traveled, tell of such

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a man. Eumius answered, father. Never one of all the

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strangers that have touched upon this coast with his life's news,

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could ever yet of queen or loved son any credit

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get these travelers for clothes or for a meal. At

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all adventures any lie will tell, nor do they trade

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for truth. Not any man that saw the people Ithocansian,

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of all their sort, and had the queen's supplies, did

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ever tell her any news but lies. She graciously receives them,

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yet inquires of all she can, and all in tears expires.

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It is the accustomed law that women keep their husbands

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elsewhere dead, at home to weep. But do thou quickly, father,

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forgeer tail some coat or cloak to keep thee warm withal,

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Perhaps some one may yield thee. But for him, vultures

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and dogs have torn from limb to limb his poorous skin,

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and forth his soul is fled, his course at sea

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to fishes forfeited, or on the shore, lies hid in

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heaps of sand, and there hath he his ebb, his

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native strand, with friend's tears flowing. But to me past

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all were tears created. For I never shall find so

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humane a royal master. More, whatever sea I seek, whatever shore,

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nay to my father or my mother's love, should I

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return by whom I breathe and move, Could I so

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much joy offer? Nor these eyes, though my desires sustain extremities,

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for their sad absence, would so fain be blessed with

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sight of their lives in my native nest, as with

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Ulysses dead, in whose last rest, O friend, my soul

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shall love him. He's not here, Nor do I name

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him like a flatterer, but as one thankful for his

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love and care to me, a poor man in the

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rich so rare. And be he past all shores where

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sun can shine, I will invoke him as a soul divine,

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O friend, said he to say, and to believe he

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cannot live, doth too much license give to incredulity, for

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not to speak at needy randon, But my breath to

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break in sacred oath. Ulysses shall return, And when his

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sight recomforts those that mourn in his own roofs, then

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give me cloak and coat and garments worthy of a

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man of note, before which though need urge me never

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so I'll not receive a thread, but naked go. No

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less I hate him than the gates of hell, that

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poorness can force an untruth to tell. Let Jove, then,

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Heaven's chief God just witness bear, And this thy hospitable

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table here, together with unblamed Ulysses house, in which I

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find receipt so gracious what I affirm of him, shall

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all be true this instant year. Thine eyes even here

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shall view thy lord Ulysses. Nay ere this month's end

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return'd full home, he shall revenge extend to every one

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whose ever deed hath done wrong to his wife and

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his illustrious son. O father, he replied, I'll neither give

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thy news reward, nor doth Ulysses live. But come enough

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of this, Let's drink and eat, and never more his

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memory repeat. It grieves my heart to be remember'd thus

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by any one of one so glorious. But stand your

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oath and your assertions strong, and let Ulysses come for

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whom I long, for whom his wife, for whom his

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aged sire, for whom his son consumes his god like fire,

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whose chance I now must mourn, and ever shall whom

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when the gods hath brought to be as tall as

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any upright plant, and I had said he would amongst

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a court of men, have swayed in councils, and for

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form have been admired. Even with his father, some god

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misinspired or man took from him his own equal mind,

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and passed him for the pillionshore to find his long

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lost father in return from whence the wooer's pride waylays

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his innocence that of divine Arcesius. All the race may

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fade to Ithaca, and not the grace of any name

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left to it, But leave we his state. However, if

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surprised he be, or if he escape and may Siturnius's hand,

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protect him safely to his native land. Do thou, then, father,

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show your griefs and cause of your arrival here, Nor

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break the laws that truth prescribes you. But relate your

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name and of what race you are, your father's fame

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and native cities, ship and men unfold that to this

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isle conveyed you. Since I hold your here, arrival was

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not all by shore, nor that your feet your aged

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person bore. He answered him, I'll tell thee all strictly true.

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If time and food and wine enough crew within your

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roof to us that freely we may sit and banquet.

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Let your business be discharged by others. For when all

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is done, I cannot easily while the year doth run

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his circle round, run over all the woes beneath, which,

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by the course of the gods, dispose my sad age labors. First,

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I'll tell you then, from ample crete, I fetch my

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native strain. My father, wealthy, whose house many a life

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brought forth and bread besides by his true wife, but

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me a bondmaid, bore his concubine, yet tendered was I

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as his lawful line, by him of whose race I

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my life profess castor his name surnamed Hilocites a man

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in four times by the Cretian state for goods, good children,

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and his fortunate success in all acts of no mean esteem,

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But death conferring fates have banished him to Pluto's kingdom,

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after whom his sons by life divided his possessions and

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gave me passing little, yet bestow'd a house on me

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to which my virtues wooed a wife from rich men's roofs.

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Nor was born low, nor last in fight, though all

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nerves fail me now, But I suppose that you, by

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thus much seen, know by the stubble what the corn

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hath been for past all doubt, affliction, past all mean

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hath brought my ajeh. But in seasons past, both Mars

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and Palace have with boldness, grace, and fortitude my fortunes.

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When I choose choice men for ambush, pressed to have

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produced ill to mine enemies, my two venturous spirits set

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never death before mine eyes for merit. But far from

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first advance, still still I struck dead with my lance,

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whoever overtook my speed of foot? Such was I then

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for war, But rustic actions ever fled me far, and

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household thrift, which breeds a fame, must race in ore

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driven ships. Did I my pleasure's place in battles, light, darts, arrows,

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sad things all and into others thoughts with horror fall.

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But what God put into my mind to me I

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still esteemed as my felicity. As men of several medals

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are addressed, so several forms are in their souls impressed

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before the sons of Greece set foot in Troy nine times.

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In chief I did command and joy of men and

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ships against our foreign foe, and all I fitly wished succeeded.

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So Yet after this I much exploit achieved when straight

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my house in all possessions thrived. Yet after that, I

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great and reverend grew amongst the Grecians, till the Thunderer

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drew our forces out. In his faux Troy decrees a

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hateful service that dissolved the knees of many a soldier.

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And to this was I and famous, I domin and

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joined to apply our ships and powers. Nor was there

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to be heard. One reason for denial so preferred was

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the unreasonable people's rumor. Nine years we therefore fed the

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martial humor, and in the tenth, depeopling Priam's town, we

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sailed for home. But God had quickly blown our fleet

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in pieces, and to wretched me, the counselor Jove did

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much mishap decree. For only one month I had leave

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to enjoy my wife and children, and my goods to employ.

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But after this my mind for Egypt stood. When nine

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fair ships I rigg'd forth for the flood, manned them

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with noble soldiers. All things fit for such a voyage

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soon were won to it. Yet six days after stayed

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my friends and feast, while I in banquets to the

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God's addressed much sacred matter for their sacrifice. The seventh

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we boarded, and the northern skies lent us a frank

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and passing, prosperous gale, for which we bore us free

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and easy sail, as we had backed to full and

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frolic tide. Nor felt one ship misfortune for her pride.

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But safe we sat our sailors and the wind, consenting

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in our convoy. When Heaven shined in sacred radiance of

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the fifth fair day to sweetly watered Egypt reached our way,

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and there we anchored, where I charged my men to

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stay aboard and watch, dismissing then some scouts to get

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the hilltops and discover they, to their own intemperance given over,

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fell straight to forge the rich fields, and thence enforced

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both wives and infants with the expense of both their bloods.

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When straight the rumor flew up to the city, which

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heard up, they drew by day's first break, and all

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the field was filled with foot and horse, whose arms

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did all things gild. And then the lightning loving deity

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cast a foul flight on my soldiers. Nor stood fast

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one man of all about whom mischief stood, and with

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his stern steel drew in streams the blood. The greater

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part fed in their dissolute veins. The rest were saved

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and made enthralled swains to the basest usages their bread.

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And then even Jove himself supplied my head with saving counsel.

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Though I wished to die, and there in Egypt, with

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their slaughters lie, so much grief seized me, But Jove

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made me yield, dishelm my head, take from my neck

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my shield, hurl from my hand my lance, and to

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the troop of horse. The king led instantly made up,

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embrace and kiss his knees whom pity one, to give

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me safety and to make me shun the people's outrage

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that made in a main all jointly fired with thirst

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to see me slain. He took me to his chariot,

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weeping home himself with fear of Jove's wrath. Overcome, who

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yielding souls, receives and takes most ill all such as

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well may save, yet love to kill. Seven years I

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sojourn'd here and treasure gat in good abundance of the

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Egyptian state, for all would give. But when the eighth

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year began, a knowing fellow that would gnaw a man

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like to Avermin, with his hellish brain and many an

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honest soul even quick had slain, whose name was Phoenix,

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close accosted me, and with insinuations such as he practic'd

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on others might consent. He gained to go into Phoenicia,

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where remain'd his house and living, and with him I

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lived a complete year. But when were all arriv'd the

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months and days, and that the year again was turning round,

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and every season's reign renewed upon us, we for Libya went,

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When still inventing crafts to circumvent. He made pretext that

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I should only go and help convey his freight, but

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thought not so, for his intent was to have sold

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me there and made good gain for finding me a year.

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Yet him, I followed, though suspecting this, for being aboard

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his ship, I must be his of strong necessity. She

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ran the flood, driven with a northern gale, right free

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and good amidst the full stream, full on crete. But

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then Jove plotted death to him and all his men,

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for put off quite from crete, and so far gone

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that shore was lost. And we set eye on none,

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but all showed heaven and sea above our keel. Jove

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pointed right a cloud as black as hell, beneath which

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all the sea hid. And from whence Jove thundered, as

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his hand would never thence and thick into our ship.

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He threw his flash that against a rock or flat.

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Her keel did dash with headlong rapture of the sulfur.

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All her bulk did savor, and her men let fall

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amidst the surges on which all lay tossed like sea

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gulls round about her sides and lost. And so God

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took all home return from them. But Jove himself, though

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plunged in that extreme, recover'd me by thrusting on my

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hand the ship's long mast, and that my life might

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stand a little more up. I embraced it round and

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on the rude winds that did ruins sound. Nine days

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we hover'd. In the tenth black night, a huge sea

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cast me on Thesprotea's height, where the hero fight on.

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That was chief of all the thesprots gave my rack

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relief without the price of that redemption that phoenix fish'd

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for where the King's loved son came to me, took

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me by the hand and led into his court. My

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poor life surfeited with cold and labor. And because my

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rack chanced on his father's shore, he let not lack

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my plight, or coat or cloak, or anything might cherish

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heat in me. And here the king said he received

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Ulysses as his guest, observ'd him friend like, and his

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course at ressed home to his country, showing there to

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me Ulysses goods a very treasury of brass and gold

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and steel of curious frame, and to the tenth succession

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of his name. He laid up wealth enough to serve

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beside in that king's house, so hugely amplified his treasure was.

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But from his court, the king affirmed him shipped for

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the Dodonian spring to hear from out the high haired

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oak of Jove, council from him for means to his

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remove to his loved country, whence so many a year

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he had been absent, if he should appear disguised or manifest,

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and further sworn in his mid court at sacrifice before

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these very eyes that he had ready there both ship

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and soldiers to attend and bear him to his country.

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But before it chanced that a thresprootean ship was to

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be launched for the much corn renowned Dulchian land, in

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which the king gave to his men command to take

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and bring me under tenderhand to king a cat justice.

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But in ill design of my poor life, did their

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desires combine so far forth as might ever keep me

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under in fortune's hands, and tear my state insunder. And

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when the water treader far away had left the land,

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then plotted they the day of my long servitude, and

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took from me both coat and cloak, and all things

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that might be grace in my habit, and in place

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put on these tatter drags, which now you see upon

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my wretched bosom. When Heaven's light took sea, they fetched

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the field works of fair Ithaca, and in the armed

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ship with a well wreathed cord, they straightly bound me,

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and did all disboard to shore to supper. In contentious route.

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It straight the gods themselves took from about my pressed

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limbs the bands with equal ease, and I my head

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in rags wrapped, took the seas, descending by the smooth stern,

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using then my hands for oars, and made from these

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bad men long way in little time. At last I

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fetch'd a goodly grove of oaks, whose shore I reach'd,

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and cast me prostrate on it. When they knew my

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thus made scape about the shores they flew, but soon

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not finding held it not their best to seek me further,

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but returned to rest aboard their vessel. Me. The gods

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lodg'd close, conducting me into the safe repose a good

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man's stable yielded, And thus fate this poor hour added

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to my living date. O wretched of guests, said he

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thy tail hath stirred my mind to much ruth, both

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how thou hast erred and suffer'd hearing in such good

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parts shown. But what thy changed relation would make known

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about ulysses I hold neither true nor will believe. And

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what needst thou pursue a lie so rashly, Since he

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sure is so as I conceived, for which my skill

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shall go the safe return my king wax cannot be.

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He is so envied of each deity, so clear, so

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cruelly for not in Troy they gave him end, nor

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let his corpse enjoy the hands of friends, which well

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they might have done. He managed arms to such perfection,

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and should have had his sepulcher and all and all

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the Greeks to grace his funeral, And this had given

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a glory to his son through all time's future. But

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his head is run unseen, unhonored, into Harpy's maws. For

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my part, I'll not meddle with the cause I live

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a separate life amongst my swine. Come at no town

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for any need of mine, unless the circularly witted Queen,

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when any far come guest is to be seen, that

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brings her news, commands me bring a brown about which

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all things being in question drawn that touch the king.

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They sit, and some are sad for his long absence,

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some again are glad to waste his goods Unreek'd all

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talking still. But as for me, I nourished little will

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to inquire or question of him, since the man that

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feigned himself, that fled Aetolian for slaughtering one through many regions,

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trade in my stall as his devisory stayed wherewell entreating him.

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He told me. Then amongst the Cretans with King I domen.

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He saw Ulysses at his ship's repair, that had been

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brushed with an enraged air, and that in summer or

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in autumn, sure, with all his brave friends and rich furniture,

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he would be here, and nothing so nor so. But thou,

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an old man taught with so much woe as thou

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hast suffered to be seizon true and brought by his fate,

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do not here pursue his gratulations with thy cunning lies.

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Thou canst not soak so through my faculties. For I

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did never either honor THEE or give THEE love to

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bring these tales to me. But in my fear of

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hospitable jove, thou didst to this pass. My affections move

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stand exceeding much incredulous, replied Ulysses. To have witnessed thus

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my word an oath, yet yield no trust at all.

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But make me now a covenant here, and call the

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dreadful gods to witness that takes seat in large olympus.

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If your king's retreat prove made even hither, you shall

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furnish me with cloak and coat, and make my passage free.

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For love, do Lithius, if as fits my vow your

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king return. Not let your servants throw my old limbs

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headlong from some rock most high, that other poor men

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may take fear to lie. The herdsman that had gifts

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in him Divine replied, O guest, how shall this fame

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of mine, an honest virtue amongst men, remain now and

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hereafter without worthy stain? If I that led thee to

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my hovel here and made thee fitting hospitable cheer, should

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after kill thee and thy loved mind force from thy bones?

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Or how should stand in clam with any faith my

469
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,000
will to importune Jove in any prayer hereafter? For is

470
00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:09,319
love come? Now tis supper's our, and instant haste My

471
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,559
men will make home when our sweet were past, will

472
00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:16,880
taste together this discourse they held in mutual kind. When

473
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,880
from a neighbor field his swine and swineherds came, who

474
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:24,200
in their coats enclosed their herds for sleep, which mighty

475
00:30:24,279 --> 00:30:28,279
throats laid out in entering. Then the godlike swain his

476
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,880
men enjoined us, bring me to be slain a chief

477
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,640
swine female, for my stranger, guest, When altogether we will

478
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,039
take our feast, refreshing now our spirits that all day

479
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,720
take pains, and our swine's good, who may therefore make

480
00:30:42,839 --> 00:30:45,759
for our pains with them? All amends with one, since

481
00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:50,000
others eat our labors and take none. This said his

482
00:30:50,119 --> 00:30:53,799
sharp steel hewed down wood, and they a passing fat

483
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,759
swine hauled out of the sty of five years old,

484
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,359
which to the fire they put. When first you is

485
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,960
from the front, did cut the sacred hair and cast

486
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,319
it in the fire. Then prayed to heaven for still

487
00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:10,119
before desire was served with food, and there so rude abodes.

488
00:31:10,319 --> 00:31:14,000
Not the poor swineherd would forget the gods good souls

489
00:31:14,039 --> 00:31:18,079
they bore, how badsoever were the habits their bodies parts

490
00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:22,440
did bear. When all the deathless deities besought that wise

491
00:31:22,559 --> 00:31:26,680
Ulysses might be safely brought home to his house. Then,

492
00:31:26,839 --> 00:31:30,440
with a log of oak left lying by high lifting it,

493
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,960
a stroke he gave so deadly it made life expire.

494
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,400
Then cut the rest her throat, and all in fire

495
00:31:37,519 --> 00:31:40,559
they hid and singed her cut her up, And then

496
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,440
the master took the office from the men, who on

497
00:31:43,599 --> 00:31:47,240
the altar did the parts impose that served for sacrifice,

498
00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:51,160
beginning close about the belly thorough which he went, and

499
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,440
all the chief fat gathering, gave it vent part dredged

500
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,319
with flour into the sacred flame. Then cut they up

501
00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:02,759
the joints and roasted them, drew all from spit, and

502
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,039
served in dishes. All then rose Eumieus, who was general

503
00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:10,119
in skill, to guide each ackt his fit event, and

504
00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:13,400
all in seven parts cut. The first part went to

505
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:16,599
service of the nymphs and mercury, to whose names he

506
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:20,240
did rights of piety in vow's particular, and all the

507
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:23,400
rest he shared to every one, but his loved guest

508
00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:26,400
he graced with all the chine and of that king,

509
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,039
to have his heart cheared, set up every string which

510
00:32:30,079 --> 00:32:33,880
he observing, said, I would to jove Eumius, thou livedst

511
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,839
in his worthy love as great as mine, that givest

512
00:32:36,839 --> 00:32:39,599
to such a guest as my poor self, of all

513
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:45,079
thy goods the best, Eumius answered, eat, unhappy wretch, and

514
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,000
to what here is at thy pleasure? Reach this? I have,

515
00:32:49,519 --> 00:32:53,599
this thou wants. Thus God will give. Thus take away

516
00:32:53,759 --> 00:32:57,480
in us and all that live to his will's equal center.

517
00:32:57,559 --> 00:33:00,880
All things fall his mind he must have, for he

518
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,759
can do all. Thus, having eate and to his wine

519
00:33:04,759 --> 00:33:08,440
descended before he served his own thirst. He commended the

520
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,279
first use of it in fit sacrifice, as of his

521
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,839
meat to all the deities, and to the city racer's

522
00:33:14,839 --> 00:33:18,440
hand applied a second cup, whose place was next his side.

523
00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:23,160
Massalius did distribute the meat, to which charge was Eumias,

524
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,160
solely set in absence of ulysses by the queen and Odleerites.

525
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,279
And this man had been bought by Eumius, with his

526
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:34,799
faculties employed then in the Taffian merchandise, but now to

527
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:40,119
food opposed that ordered. Thus all fell desire sufficed, Massalius

528
00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:43,880
did take away for bed. Then next they were all

529
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:48,480
thoroughly satisfied with complete cheer. The night then came ill,

530
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,519
and no taper shined. Jove reined her whole date. The

531
00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:57,839
ever watery wind Zephyr blew loud, and Leirtiades, approving kind

532
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,920
Eumias's carefulness for his whole good wood, made far about us,

533
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,680
say to get some cast off cassock, lest he lay

534
00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:08,599
that rough night cold of him, or any one of

535
00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:13,039
those his servants. When he thus begun hear me Eumaeus

536
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,079
and my other friends, I'll use a speech that to

537
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,239
my glory tends. Since I have drunk wine past my

538
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,519
usual guise. Strong wine commands the fool, and moves the

539
00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:27,320
wise moves, and impels him too to sing and dance,

540
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:32,159
and break in pleasant laughters, and perchance prefer speech too,

541
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,920
that were better in. But when my spirits, once to

542
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,159
speak begin, I shall not then dissemble. Would to heaven

543
00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,159
I were as young, and had my forces driven as

544
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:46,199
close together as when once our powers we led to

545
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:51,000
ambush under the Illian towers, where Ithacus and Menelaus were

546
00:34:51,079 --> 00:34:54,000
the two commanders, when it pleased them there to take

547
00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:57,880
myself for third. When to the town and lofty walls

548
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,519
we led, we couched close down, all armed, amidst the

549
00:35:02,559 --> 00:35:07,440
osures and the reeds, which oft times the overflowing river feeds.

550
00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:11,239
The cold night came, and the icy northern gale blew

551
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:15,599
bleak upon us, after which did fall asnow so cold

552
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:19,039
it cut as in it beat a frozen water, which

553
00:35:19,159 --> 00:35:23,440
was all concrete. About Our shields like crystal, all made

554
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,000
faine above our arms to clothe and clothe again. And

555
00:35:27,119 --> 00:35:30,800
so we made good shift our shields beside, clapped close

556
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,079
upon our clothes, to rest and hide from all discovery.

557
00:35:34,679 --> 00:35:37,920
But I, poor fool, left my weeds with my men,

558
00:35:38,519 --> 00:35:41,519
because so cool I thought it could not prove, which

559
00:35:41,559 --> 00:35:45,039
thought my pride a little strengthened, being loath to hide

560
00:35:45,079 --> 00:35:48,440
the goodly, glittering garment I had on. And so I

561
00:35:48,559 --> 00:35:52,519
followed with my shield alone and that brave weed. But

562
00:35:52,639 --> 00:35:55,199
when the night near ended her course on earth, and

563
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,599
when the stars descended, I jogged Ulysses, who lay passing near,

564
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,119
and spake to him that had a nimble ear, assuring

565
00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:05,880
him that long I could not lie amongst the living,

566
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,039
for the fervency of that sharp knight would kill me.

567
00:36:09,599 --> 00:36:12,599
Since as then my evil angel made me with my

568
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,960
men leave all weeds but a fine one. But I

569
00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:19,159
know tis vain to talk here wants all remedy. Now

570
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,400
this said he bore that understanding part in his prompt spirit,

571
00:36:24,599 --> 00:36:28,079
that still showed his art in fight and counsel, saying

572
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,159
in a word and that low whispered peace, lest you

573
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:36,039
afford some Greek note of your softness. No word more,

574
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,440
but made as if his stern austerity bore my plight

575
00:36:39,599 --> 00:36:43,519
no pity. Yet as still he lay his head, reposing

576
00:36:43,559 --> 00:36:47,639
on his hand, gave way to this invention. Hear me,

577
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,400
friends a dream that was of some celestial light, a

578
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,840
beam stood in my sleep before me, prompting me with

579
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,199
this fit. Notice we are far, said he from our fleet.

580
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,519
Let one go then, and trieth Agamemnon will afford supply

581
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,079
to what we now are strong. This stirred a speed

582
00:37:07,159 --> 00:37:10,559
in thoas to the affair whose purple weed he left

583
00:37:10,599 --> 00:37:13,679
for haste, which then I took and lay in quiet

584
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:18,000
after till the dawn of day. This shift ulysses made

585
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,679
for one in need, And would to Heaven that youth

586
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,159
such spirit did feed now in my nerves, and that

587
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,159
my joints were knitted with such a strength as made

588
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:30,320
me then held fit to lead men with ulysses. I

589
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,960
should then seem worth a weed that fits a herdsman's men,

590
00:37:34,159 --> 00:37:37,559
for two respects, to gain a thankful friend, and to

591
00:37:37,639 --> 00:37:42,760
a good man's need a good extend, O, father, said Eumaeus.

592
00:37:43,039 --> 00:37:45,679
Thou hast shown good cause for us to give thee

593
00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:49,360
good renown, not using any word that was not freed

594
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,480
from all least ill thou therefore shalt not need or

595
00:37:53,559 --> 00:37:57,039
coat or utter thing that aptly may beseem a wretched

596
00:37:57,079 --> 00:38:01,039
suppliant for defray of this knight's need. But when her

597
00:38:01,079 --> 00:38:04,360
golden throne the morn ascends, you must resume your own,

598
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,639
for here you must not dream of many weeds or

599
00:38:07,679 --> 00:38:10,519
any change at all. We serve our needs as you

600
00:38:10,679 --> 00:38:15,599
do yours, one back, one coat. But when Ulysses loved

601
00:38:15,679 --> 00:38:19,119
son returns, he then shall give you coat and cassock,

602
00:38:19,559 --> 00:38:22,320
and bestow your person where your heart and soul is.

603
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:27,360
Now this said he rose made near the fire his bed,

604
00:38:27,679 --> 00:38:30,960
which all with goats and sheep skins he bespread, all

605
00:38:31,039 --> 00:38:35,719
which Ulysses with himself did line with whom besides he

606
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,719
changed a gaberdine, thick lind and soft, which still he

607
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,639
made his shift when he would dress him against the

608
00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:47,320
horror drift of tempest when deep winter's season blows. Nor

609
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,039
pleased at him to lie there with his sows. But

610
00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:53,840
while Ulysses slept there and close by the other yonkers,

611
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:58,320
he abroad would lie and therefore armed him, which set

612
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,079
cheerful fare before Ulysses heart, to see such care of

613
00:39:02,119 --> 00:39:06,159
his goods taken, how far offsoever his fate, his person,

614
00:39:06,199 --> 00:39:09,920
and his wealth should sever. First, then a sharp edged

615
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,679
sword he girt about his well spread shoulders, and to

616
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,000
shelter out the sharp west wind that blew, he put

617
00:39:17,079 --> 00:39:20,360
him on a thick line jacket, and yet cast upon

618
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,440
all that the large hide of a goat well fed

619
00:39:24,119 --> 00:39:27,039
a lance. Then he took with a keen steel head

620
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,440
to be his keep off, both against men and dogs.

621
00:39:31,039 --> 00:39:33,880
And thus went he to rest with his mail hogs,

622
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:37,719
that still abroad lay underneath a rock shield to the

623
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,639
north wind's ever eager shock. End of the fourteenth book