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Recording by Phil Schamp. The twentieth Book of the Odyssees

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

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the woer's beds, resolving first to kill the maids. That sentence,

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giving off his care for other objects, doth prepare another

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argument Upsalon Jove thundered, chides, but cheers the king. The

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wooer's pride's discomfiting Ulysses in the entry laid his head,

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and under him an oxide a newly flayed. Above him,

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sheep fell store and over those urynemy cast mantles. His

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repose would bring no sleep. Yet, studying the ill, he

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wished the wars who came by him still with all

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their wenches, laughing, wantoning, in mutual lightness, which his heart

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did sting. Contending two ways. If all patients fled, he

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should rush up and strike those strumpets dead, or let

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that night be last and take the extreme of those

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proud wars that were so supreme in pleasure of their

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high fed fantasies, his heart did bark within him to

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surprise their sports with spoils. No fell She mast if

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can amongst her whelps fly eagerer on a man she

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doth not know, yet sends him something near and fain

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would come to please her tooth and tear that his

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disdain to see his roof so filed with those foul

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fashions grew within him wild to be in blood of them,

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but finding best in his free judgment to let passion rest,

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He chid his angry spirit and beat his breast, and said,

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forbear my mind and think on this. There hath been

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and time when bitter agonies have tried thy patience. Call

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to mind the day in which the cyclop which passed

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manly sway of violent strength, devoured thy friends. Thou then

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stood'st firmly, bold, till from that hellish den thy wisdom

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brought thee off, when nought but death. Thy thoughts resolved

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on this discourse, did breathe the fiery boundings of his

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heart that still lay in that esture without and his

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ill yet manly suffering. But from side to side it

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made him toss apace. You have not tried a fellow

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roasting of a pig before a hasty fire. His belly,

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yielding store of fat and blood, turned faster, labor more

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to have it roast, and would not have it burn

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than this, and that way his unrest made turn his

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thoughts and body, would not quench the fire, and yet

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not have it heighten his desire past his discretion, and

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the fit enough of haste and speed that went to

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all the proof his well laid plots and his exploits required.

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Since he but one to all their deaths aspired in

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this contention, Pallas stooped from heaven, stood over him, and

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had her presence given a woman's form, who sternly thus began,

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Why thou, most sour and wretched, fated man of all

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that breathe yet liest thou thus awake the house in

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which thy care so toss, and take thy quiet up?

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Is thine? Thy wife is there, and such a son,

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as if thy wishes were to be sufficed with one

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they could not mend. Goddess said, he tis true, but

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I contend to right their wrongs, And though I be

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but one to lay unhelped and wreakful hand upon this

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whole resort of impudence, that here their rude assemblies never

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will forbear. And yet a greater doubt employs my care.

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That if their slaughters in my reaches are, and I

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perform them jove, and you not pleased, how shall I

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fly their friends? And would stand seized of counsel to

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resolve this care in me wretch, she replied, A friend

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of worse degree might win thy credence, that immortal were

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aye an used to second thee, though nothing near so

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powerful in performance nor in care. Yet I a goddess

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that have still had share in thy achievements, and thy

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person's guard must still be doubted by thy brain, so

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hard to credit anything above thy power, and that must

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come from heaven. If every hour there be not personal

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appearance made an aid direct given, that may sense invade.

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I tell THEE Therefore, clearly, if there were of divers

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languaged men, an army here of fifty companies, all driving

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hence thy sheep and oxen, and with violence offered to

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charge us and besiege us round, thou shouldst their prey

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reprise and them confound. Let sleep, then seize thee to

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keep watch all night consumes the spirits and makes dull

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the sight. Thus poured the goddess Sleep into his eyes,

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and reascended the Olympian skies. When care and lineament resolving

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Sleep had laid his temples in his golden steep, his wise, chaste,

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wit worthy wife did rise first, sitting up in her

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soft bed, her eyes opened with tears in care of

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her estate, which now her friends resolved to terminate to

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more delays and make her merry one. Her silent tears

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then ceased her orison. This queen of women to Diana, Maid,

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Reverend Diana, let thy darts invade my woeful bosom, and

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my life deprive now at this instant, or soon after.

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Drive my soul with tempests forth, and give it way

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to those far off dark vaults, where never day hath

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power to shine, And let them cast it down where

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refulent Oceanus doth crown his curled head, where Pluto's orchard did,

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and entrance to our after miseries, and such stern whirlwinds

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ravished to that stream. Pandarius's daughters, when the gods to

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them had reft their parents and left them alone, poor

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orphaned children in their mansion whose desolate life did love

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sweet Queen inclined to nurse with pressed milk and sweetest wine,

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whom Juno decked beyond all other dames with wisdom's light

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and beauty's moving flames, whom Phoebe, goodliness of stature rendered,

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and to whose fair hands wise Minerva tendered the loom

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and needle in their utmost skill. And while Love's Empress

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scaled the Olympian hill to beg of lightning, loving Jove,

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since he the means to all things knows and doth

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decree fortunes in fortunes to the mortal race for those

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poor virgins, the accomplished grace of sweet nuptials. The fierce

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harpies preyed on every good and miserable maid, and to

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the hateful furies gave them all in horrid service. Yet

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may such fate fall from steep olepus on my loathed

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head or fair chaired Phoebe, strike me instant dead, that

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I may undergo the gloomy shore to visit great Ulysses soul,

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before I soothe my idle blood and wed a worse

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And Yet beneath how desperate a curse do I live? Now?

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It is an ill that may be well endured to

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mourn the whole long day. So night's sweet sleeps that

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make a man forget both bad and good, in some degree,

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would let my thoughts leave grieving. But both day and night,

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some cruel God gives my sad memory sight this night,

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methought Ulysses graced my bed in all the goodly state

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with which he led the Grecian army, which gave joy's

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extreme to my distress, esteeming it no dream but true indeed,

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and that conceit I had, that when I saw it false,

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I might be mad. Such cruel fates command in my

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life's guide. By this the morning's orient dews had dyed

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the earth in all her color. When the king, in

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his sweet sleep suppose the sorrowing that she used waking

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in her plaintive bed to be her mourning, standing by

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his head, as having known him there, who straight arose

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and did again within the hall dispose the carpets and

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the cushions where before they serve the seats. The hide

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without the door he carried back, and then withheld up

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hands he prayed to him that heaven and Earth commands

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O Father Jove. If through the moist and dry, you

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willing brought me home, when misery had punished me enough

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by your free dooms. Let some of these within those

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inner rooms startled with horror of some strange astent. Come

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here and tell me that Great Jove hath bent threatenings

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without at some lewd men within to this his prayer.

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Jove shook his sable chin and thundered from those pure clouds,

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that above the breathing air in bright olympus move divine ulysses.

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Joy to hear it roar, report of which a woman

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miller bore straight to his ears, for near to him

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their ground mills for his corn. That twice six women

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found continual motion grinding barley meal and wheat man's marrow sleep.

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The eyes did seal of all the other women, having

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done their usual task, which yet this dame alone had

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scarce given end to, being of all the rest least

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fit for labor. But when these sounds pressed her ears

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above the rumbling of her mill, she let that stand

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looked out, and heaven steep hill saw clear and temperate,

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which made her unaware of giving any comfort to his care.

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In that strange sign he prayed for thus, invoke, O,

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King of Men, and gods a mighty stroke, thy thundering

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hand laid on the cope of stars, no cloud in

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all the air. And therefore War's thou bidst some men

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in thy sure ostent, perform to me poor rich the

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main event, and make this day the last and most

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extreme in which the woar's pride shall solace them with

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horash banquets in Ulysses roof that with sad toil to

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grind them meal enough have quite dissolved my knees vouchsafe.

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Then now thy thunders made their latest feast foreshow this

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was the boone Ulysses begged of Jove, which with his

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thunder through his bosom, drove a joy that this wunt breathed.

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Why now these men, despite their pride, will Jove make

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pay me pain by this? And other maids than those

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that lay mixed with the woars made a fire like

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day amidst the hearth of the illustrious hall. And then

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the Prince, like a celestial rose from his bed to

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his embalmed feet, tied fair shoes, his sword about his breast, applied,

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took to his hand his sharp piled glance, and met

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amidst the entry his old nurse that set his haste

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at sudden stand, to whom he said, Oh, my love, nurse,

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with what grace have you laid and fed my guest here?

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Could you so neglect his age to lodge him? Thus,

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though all respect I give my mother's wisdom, I must

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yet affirm it failed in this, for she hath set

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at much more price a man of much less worth

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without his person's note, and yet casts forth with ignominious

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hands for his form's sake, a man much better, do

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not fault make good son the faultless. He was given

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his seat close to her side, and food till he

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would eat, wine till his wish was served. For she

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requir'd his wants and willed him all things he desired.

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Commanded her chief maids to make his bed, But he,

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as one whom sorrow only fed and all in fortune,

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would not take his rest in bed and coverings fit

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for any guest. But in the entry on an Ox's hide,

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never at Tanner's, his old limbs implied in warm sheep felves.

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Yet over all we cast a mantle fitting for a

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man more graced. He took her answer, left the house,

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and went attended with his dogs to sift the event

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of private plots betwixt him and his sire in common council.

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Then the crew entire of all the household maids euryclea

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bad bestir them through the house and see it clad

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in all best form, gave all their parts. And one

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she set to furnish every seat and throne with needleworks

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and purple cloths of state. Another set to scour and

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cleanse the plate, another all the tables to make proud

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with poorous sponges. Others she bestowed in all speed to

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the spring to fetch from thence fit store of water.

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All at all expense of pains she willed to be

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for this to all should be a day of common festival,

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and not a wooer now should seek his home elsewhere

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than there. But all were bid to come exceeding early,

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and to be raised to heaven with all the entertainment

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could be given. They heard with greedy ears, and everything

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put straight in practice. Twenty to the spring made speed

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for water. Many in the house took pains, and all

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were both laborious and skilled in labor. Many fell to

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fell and cleave their wood, and all did more than well.

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Then trooped the lusty wooers in, and then came all

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from spring at their heels, loaded men with slaughtered bronze.

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Of all that heard the prize that had been long

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fed up in several styles. Eumius and his men conveyed

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them there. He, seeing now the king, began to cheer,

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and thus saluted him. How now, my guest, have yet

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your virtues found more interest in these great war's good respects,

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or still pursue they you with all their wanted too?

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I would to heaven Eumius, he replied, The deities once

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would take in hand their pride, that such unseemly fashions

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put in frame and others roofs as show no spark

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of shame. Thus the and to these came Melanthius, great

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guardian of the most egregious rich wooer's herds, consisting all

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of goats, which he with two more drave and made

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their coats the sounding porticos of that fair court. Melanthius,

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seeing the king this former sort of upland language, gave

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what still stay here and dull these woers with thy

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wretched cheer? Not gone forever yet? Why now I see

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this strife of cuffs betwixt the beggary, that yesterday is

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sayed to get thee gone, and thy more roguery needs

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will fall upon my hands to arbitrate. Thou wilt not

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hence till I set on thee. Thy ragged impudence is

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so fast footed. Are there not beside other great banquetuns.

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But you must tide at anchor still with us? He

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said nothing, but thought ill enough, and shook his head.

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Then came Pelethius, a chief of men, that to the

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wooers all devouring den a baron, steered rave and fat goats.

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For they, in custom, were with traffickers by sea, that

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who they would scent, and had utterance there. And for

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these likewise the fair porches were hurdles and sheep pins,

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as in any fair. Pheletius took note in his repair

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of seen Ulysses, being a man as well given to

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his mind's use as to buy and sell, or do

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the drudgery that the blood desired, And standing near Eumaeus,

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this inquired, what guest is this that makes our house

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of late his entertainer? Whence claims he the state his

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birth in this life holds, what nation, what race? What country?

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Stands his speech upon or hardly portioned by the terrible fates.

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The structure of his lineaments relates a king's resemblance in

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his pomp of rain. Even thus in these rags, but

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poorring men that have no firm home, but range here

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and there as need compels. God keeps in this earth's

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sphere as under water. And this too he sings when

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he is spinning, even the cares of kings. Thus, coming

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to him with a kind of fear, he took his

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hand and touched exceeding near with mere imagination of his worth.

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This salutation he sent loudly forth health, father, stranger in

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another world, be rich and happy, Though thou here art

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hurled at feet of never such insulting need. O Jove,

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there lives no one god of thy seed, more ill

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to man than thou. Thou takest no ruth. When thou

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thyself hast got him in most truth, to wrap him

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in the straits of most distress, and in the curse

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of others wickedness, My brows have swept to see it,

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and mine eyes broke all in tears. When this, being

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still the guise of worthiest men, I have but only

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thought that down to these ills was ulysses wrought, and

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that thus clad even he is here driven, if yet

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he live and sees the light of heaven. But if

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now dead, and in the house of hell O me

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o good ulysses that my weeel did ever wish. And

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when but half a man amongst the people, Capphellenian is

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bounty to his Oxen's charge preferred one in that youth

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which now has grown a herd unspeakable for number, and

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feed there with their broad heads as thick as of

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his ear a field of corn is to a man.

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Yet these some men advise me with this noted priests

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of oars may devour and wish me drive up to

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their feasts with them that neither give his son respect

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though in his own free roof, nor have the wit

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to fear the infallible proof of heavenly vengeance. But make

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offer now this long lacked king's possessions to bestow in

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their self shares. Methinks the mind in me doth turn

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as fast as in a flood or sea, a raging whirlpit,

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doth to gather in to fishy death, those swimmers in

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their sin or feeds a motion as circular to drive

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my herds away. But while the sun bears up with life.

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Twere Highness wrong to run to other people with them,

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and to trust men of another earth, And yet more

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just it were to venture their laws the main right

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made still their masters than at home lose quite their

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right in them, and sit and grieve to see the

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wrong authorized by their gluttony. And I had long since

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fled and tried the event with other proud kings, since

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more insolent these are than can be borne. But that

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even still I had a hope that this, though born

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to ill, would one day come from some coast, and

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their last in his roofs strew with ruins, red and

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vast herdsman, said he, because thou art in show, nor lewd,

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nor indiscreet, and that I know their rules in thee,

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in understanding soul, I'll take an oath that in THEE

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shall control all doubt of what I swear be witness

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Jove that swayeth the first seat of the throne, above

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this hospitable table, and this house that's still hold title

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for the strenuous son of Laertes, that if so you please,

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your eyes shall witness Laertiaddes arriv'd at home, and all

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these men that reign in such excesses. Here shall here

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lie slain? He answered, stranger would just jove would sign

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what you have sworn. In your eyes beams should shine,

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what powers I manage? And how these my hands would

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rise and follow where he first commands, So said Eumaeus,

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praying all the sky that wise ulysses might arrive and try.

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Thus while they vowed, the wooer sat his hard on

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his son's death. But had their counsels scared, For on

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their left hand did an eagle soar, and in her

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sears a fearful pigeon bore which scene and Finnamus presag'd

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o friends, our counsels never will receive their ends in

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this man's slaughter. Let us therefore ply our bloody feast

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and make his oxen die. Thus came they in cast

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off on seats their cloaks, and fell to giving sacrificing

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strokes of sheep and goats. The chiefly fat and great

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slew fed up swine, and from the herd at eat

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the inwards roasted. They disposed betwixt their then observers, wine

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and flagons mixed the bulls. Eumius brought Peletius bread Melanthius

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filled the wine. Thus drank and fed the feastful wars.

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Then the prince, in grace of his close project, did

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his father place amidst a paved entry, in a seat seamless,

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an abject, a small board, and meat of the only

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inwards in a cup of gold. Yet set him wine

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and bade him now drink bold. All his approaches, he

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himself would free against all the wooers, since he would

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not see his court made popular, but that his sire

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built it to his use. Therefore, all the fire blown

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in the wooer's spleens he bade suppress, and that in

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hands nor words should they digress from that set peace

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his speech. Did then proclaim, they bit their lips, and

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wondered at his aim in that brave language, when Antinous said,

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though this speech, grecians, be a mere upbraid, Yet this

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time give it pass. The will of Jove forbids the

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violence of our hands to move, but of our tongues

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we keep the motion free. And therefore, if his further

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jollity tempt our encounter with his braves, let's check his

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growing insolence. Though pride to speak, fly passing high with him,

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the wise prince made no more spring of his speech,

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but let it fade. And now the heralds bore about

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the town the sacred hecatomb, to whose renown the fair

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haired Greeks assembled, and beneath Apollo's shady wood the holy

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Death they put to fire, which made enough they drew,

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divided all that did in the end a crue to

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glorious satisfaction. Those that were disposers of the feast did

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equal cheer, bestow un wretchedly Aertiades with all the war's souls.

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It so did pleased Alemachus to charge them. And for

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these Minerva would not see the malices. The wars bore

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too much contained that so Ulysses moved heart might yet

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higher flow in wreakful anguish. There was wooing there amongst

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the rest a gallant that did bear the name of

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one well learned in jess profane. His name Catessipus, born

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a Samian, who proud because his father was so rich,

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had so much confidence, as did bewitch his heart with

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hope to wed Ulysses wife. And this man said, hear me,

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my lords in strife for this great widow, this her

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guest did share even feast with us, with very comely

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care of him that ordered it, for tis not good

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nor equal to deprived guests of their food, and specially

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whatever guest makes way to that house where Telemachus doth sway.

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And therefore I will add to his receipt a gift

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of very hospitable weight, which he may give again to

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any maid that bathes his grave feet and her pain

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see paid, or any servant else that the divine Ulysses

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lofty battlements confine. Thus snatched he with a valiant hand,

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from out the poor folk's common basket a neat's foot,

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and threw it at Ulysses, who his head shrunk quietly aside,

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and let it shed his malice on the wall the

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suffering man a laughter, raising most Sardinian with scorn and

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wrath mixed at the Samian whom thus the prince reprov'd

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your valor wan much grazed Catessipus, and hath eased your

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mind with mighty prophet. Yet you see it fine, no

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market aimed at the poor stranger's part himself made good

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enough to escape your dart. But should I serve thee worthily,

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my lance should strike thy heart through and in place

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to advance thyself in nuptials with his wealth. Thy sire

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should make thy tomb here, that the foolish fire of

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all such valors may not dare to show these foul

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indecencies to me. I now have years to understand my strength,

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and know the good and bad of things, and am

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no more at your large sufferance to behold my stark

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consum'd with patience, see my cattle slain, my wine exhausted,

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and my bread in vain spent on your license for

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to one then young. So many enemies were matched too strong.

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But let me never more be witness to your hostile minds,

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nor those base deeds ye do. For should ye kill

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me and my offer'd reek, I wish it rather, and

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my death would speak much more good of me than

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to live and see indignity upon indignity. My guests provoked

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with bitter words and blows, My women servants dragg'd about

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my house to lust and rapture. This made silence sees

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the house throughout, till the masterietes at length the calm break,

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and said friend forbear to give a just speech a

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disdainful ear. The guest no more touch nor no servant

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here myself will to the Prince and Queen command a

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motion grateful if they please to lend grateful receipt, as

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long as any hope left wise ulysses any passage op

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to his return in our conceits, So long the Queen's

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delays to our demand stood strong in cause and reason,

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and our quarrels thus with guests the Queen or her

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Telemachus set never foot amongst our liberal feast. For should

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the king return, though thought deceased, it had been gained

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to us in finding him to lose his wife. But

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now since nothing dim the day's break out that show

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he never more shall reach the dear touch of his

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country shore, sit by your mother in persuasion that now

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it stands her honor much upon to choose the best

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of us, and who gives most to go with him home,

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For so all things lost in sticking on our hats,

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so you shall clear recover in our no more concourse.

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Here possess your birthright, holy eat and drink, and never

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more on our disgraces. Think by Jove no ajelius, for

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I swear by all my father's sorrows. Who doth air

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far off from his or rests in death. I am

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so far from spending but my breath to make my

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mother any more defer her wished nuptials, that I'll counsel

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her to make her free choice, and besides will give

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large gifts to move her. But I fear to drive

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or charge her. Hence or God will not give way

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to any such course. If I should, as say, at

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this Minerva made for foolish joy. The wooer's mad and

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roused their late annoy to such a laughter as would

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never down. They laughed with others, cheeks ate meat overflown

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with their own bloods. Their eyes stood full of tears

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for violent joys. Their souls yet thought of fears which

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Thioclaminus expressed, and said, oh wretches, why sustain ye will

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appaid your imminent ill? A knight with which death sees

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your heads and faces hides beneath your knees. Shrieks burn

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about you, your eyes thrust out tears. These fixed walls,

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and that beam that bears the whole house up in

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bloody torrents fall, the entry full of ghosts stands fuld

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the hall of passengers to hell, and under all the

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dismal shades, the sun sinks from the poles and troubled

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air pours bane about your souls. They sweetly laughed at this.

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Eurymicus to mocks disposed, and said, this new come to

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us is surely mad. Conduct him forth to light in

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the open market place. He thinks tis night within the house.

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Eurymicus said he, I will not ask for any guide

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of thee. I both my feet and joy have ears

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and eyes, and no mad soul within me. And with

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these will I go forth the doors, because I know

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that imminent mischief must abide with you, which not a

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man of all the wars here shall fly or scape.

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Ye all too highly bear your uncurbed heads. Impieties ye commit,

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and every man affect with forms unfit. This said, he

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left the house and took his way home to Pyrieus, who,

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as free as day, was of his welcome. When the

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wooer's eyes changed looks with one another, and their guise

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of laughter still held on, still eased their breasts of

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will to set the prince against his guests, affirming that

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of all the men alive, he worst luck had, and

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proved it worst to give guests entertainment, for he had

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won there a wandering hunter out of provender, an errant

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beggar every way, yet thought he was so hungry that

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he needed not but wine and victuals. Nor knew how

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to do, nor had a spirit to put a knowledge to,

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but lived an idle burthen to the earth. Another then

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stepped up and would lay forth his lips in prophecy. Thus,

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but would he hear his friend's persuasions, he should find

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it were more profit for him to put both abroad

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for the Sicilian people that afford these feet of men

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good price, and this would bring good means for better guests.

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These were made wing to his ears idly, who had

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still his eye upon his father, looking fervently when he

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would lay his long withholding hand on those proud wars.

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And within command of all this speech that passed Ecarius's heir,

469
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the wise Penelope, her royal chair had placed of purpose

470
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their high dinner. Then, with all pleased pallets, these ridiculous

471
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men fell sweetly too, as joying they had slain such

472
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store of banquet. But there did not rain a bitterer

473
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banquet planet in all heaven than that which Pallas had

474
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to that day driven and with her able friend now

475
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meant to oppose, since they till then were in deserts

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so gross end of the twentieth book