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LibriVox dot org. Recording by Phil Schamp. The twenty third

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

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The argument ulysses to his wife is known a brief

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sum of his travels shown himself. His son and servants

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go to approve the war's overthrow. Another argument sigh for

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all a noise sustained before the true wife's joys now

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made the more the servants thus informed, The matron goes

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up where the queen was cast in such repose, affected

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with a fervent joy, to tell what all this time

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she did, with pain conceal her knees revoked their first strength,

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and her feet were born above the ground with wings.

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To greet the long grieved queen with news her king

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was come, and near her said, wake, leave this withdrawn room,

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that now your eyes may see at length, though late

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the man returned, which all the heavy date your woes

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have racked out you have longed to see Ulysses has

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come home, and hath set free his court of all

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your wars, slaughtering all, for wasting so his goods with

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festival his house so vexing, and for violence done so

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always varied to his only son. She answered her, the

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gods have made thee mad, of whose power? Now thy

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powers such proof have had the gods con blind with

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follies wisest eyes, and make men foolish, so to make

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them wise, For they have hurt even thy grave brain,

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that born understanding spirit, Heretofore, why hast thou wake me

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to more tears? When Moan hath turned my mind with

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tears into her own, thy madness much more blameful that

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with lies, thy haste is latent, and both robs mine

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eyes of most delightsome sleep, and sleep of them that

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now had bound me in his sweet extreme to embrace

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my lids and close my visual spheres. I have not

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slept so much this twenty years since first my dearest

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sleeping mate was gone, For that too ill to speak

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of ilion. Hence, take your mad steps back. If any

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maid of all my train, besides a part, had played

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so bold to wake and tell mine ears such lies

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I had returned her to her housewiferies with good proof

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of my wrath to such rude dames. But go, your

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years have saved their younger blames. She answered her. I'm

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nothing wrong, your ear, But tell the truth. Your long

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missed lord is here, and with the wooer's slaughter, his

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own hand in chief exploit hath to his own command

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reduced his house. And that poor guest was he that

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all those woors wrought such injury? Telemachus had knowledge long

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ago that twas his father, But his wisdom so observed

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his counsels to give sure and to that great work

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to which they did contend. This called her spirits to

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their conceiving places. She sprung for joy from blames into

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embraces of her grave. Nurse wiped every tear away from

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her fair cheeks, and then began to say what nurse

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said over thus, O, nurse, can this be true? Thou sayest?

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How could that hand of his alone destroy so many

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they would still troop altogether? How could he then kill

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such numbers so united? How said she? I have not

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seen nor heard, but certainly the deed is done. We

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sat within in fear, the doors shut to us, and

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from thence might hear the sighs and groans of every

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man he slew, but heard nurse saw more, till at

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length there flew your son's voice to mine ear that

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called to me and bade me then come forth. And

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then I see Ulysses standing in the midst of all

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your slaughter'd wooers, heaped up like a wall, one on another,

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round about his side. It would have done you good

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to have described your conquering lord, all smeared with blood

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and gore so like a lion straight. Then off they

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bore the slaughtered carcasses that now before the forecourt gates

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lie one on another piled, And now your victor, all

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the hall, defiled with stench of hot death, is perfuming

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round and with a mighty fire. The hearth hath crowned.

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Thus all the death removed, and every room made sweet

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and sightly, that yourself should come. His pleasure sent me come.

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Then take you now your mutual fills of comfort grief

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on you hath long and many sufferings laid, which length

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with many sufferings. Now your virtuous strength of uncorrupted chasteness

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hath conferred happy end to he that long hath erred

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is safe, arrived at home, his wife, his son found

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safe and good. All ill that hath been done on

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all the doer's heads, though long prolonged, his right hath reaped,

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and in the place they wronged, She answered, do not

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you now laugh and boast as you had done some

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great act, seeing most into his being. For you know

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he won, even through his poor and vile condition, a

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kind of prompted thought, that there was placed some virtue

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in him, fit to be embraced by all the house,

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but most of all by me and by my son.

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That was the progeny of both our loves. And yet

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it is not he. For all the likely proofs, he

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plead to me, some god hath slain the wars in

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disdain of the abhorred pride he saw so reign in

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those base works they did. No men alive, are good

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or bad, whoever did arrive at their abodes once ever

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could obtain regard of them. And therefore there so vain

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and vile desserts have found as vile an end. But

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for Ulysses never will extend his wish to return to Greece,

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nor he yet lives. How strange a queen you are,

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said she that gives no truth. Your credit that your

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husband set close in his house at fire, can purchase

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yet no faith of you, but that he still is

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far from any home of his, Your wits at war

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with all credulity ever, and yet now I'll name a

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sign shall force belief from you. I bathed him lately

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and beheld the scar that still remains a mark too

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ocular to leave your heart yet blinded. And I then

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had run and told you, But his hand was fain

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to close my lips from the acclamation. My heart was breathing,

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and his wisdom won my still retention, till he gave

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me leave and charged to tell you this. Now, then

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receive my life for gage of his return, which take

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in any cruel fashion, if I make all this not

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clear to you, love nurse, said she. Though many things

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thou know'st Yet these things be veiled in the counsels

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the uncreated gods have long time masked, in whose dark

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periods tis hard for thee to see into. But come,

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let's see my son the slain, and him by whom

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they had their slaughter, this said, Down they went, When

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on the Queen's part, diverse thoughts were spent. If all this,

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given no faith, she still should stand aloof and question more,

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or his hugged hand and loved head, she should at first,

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as say, with free given kisses. When her doubtful way

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had passed the stony pavement, she took seat against her

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husband in the opposite heat. The fire then cast upon

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the other wall, himself set by the column of the hall,

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his looks cast downwards, and expected still when her incredulous

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and curious will to shun ridiculous air and the shame

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to kiss a husband that was not the same, would

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down and win enough faith from his sight, she silent sat,

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and her perplexed plight a maze encountered. Sometimes she stood

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clear he was her husband. Sometimes the ill where his

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person had put on transformed him so that yet his

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stamp would hardly current go her son. Her strangeness seeing

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blamed her. Thus, mother, ungentle mother, tyrannus, is this too

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curious modesty to show? Why sit you from my father?

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Nor bestow a word on me to inquire in clear

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such doubt as may perplex you found? Man? Ever, out

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one other such a wife that could forbear her loved

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lord's welcome home When twenty year in infinite sufferance he

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had spent apart no flint so hard is as a

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woman's heart. Son said, she a maze contains my mind.

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Nor can I speak and use the common kind of

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those inquiries, nor distain to see with opposite looks his countenance.

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If this be my true ulysses now returned, there are

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tokens betwixt us of more fitness far to give me argument.

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He is my lord, and my assurance of him may

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afford my proofs of joy for him. From all these eyes,

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with more decorum than object their guise to public notice,

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the much sufferer break in laughter out, and to his

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son said, take your mother from the priest, that she

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may make her own proofs of me, which perhaps may

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give more cause to the acknowledgments that drive their show

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thus off. But now because I go so poorly clad,

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she takes disdain to know, so loath the creature for

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her loved lord. Let us consult then, how we may

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accord the town to our late action. Some one slain

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hath made the all left slaughterer of him fain to

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fly his friends and country. But our swords have slain

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a city's most supportful lords. The chief peers of the

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king kingdom. Therefore, see you use wise means to uphold

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your victory. See you to that good father, said the son,

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whose counsels have the sovereign glory one from all men living.

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None will strive with you, but with unquestioned girlands, grace

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your brow to whom our whole alacrities we vow in

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free attendants. Nor shall our hands leave your onsets needy

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of supplies, to give all the effects that in our

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powers can fall. Then, this said he to thee seems

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capital of all choice courses. Bathe we first, and then

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attire we freshly all our maids and men, and joining

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likewise to their best attire the sacred singer. Then let

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touch his lyre, and go before us all in graceful dance,

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that all without to whose ears shall advance our cheerful accents,

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or of travelers by or firm inhabitants, solemnity of frolic nuptials,

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may imagine here and this perform we lest the massacre

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of all all our wars be divulged about the ample city.

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Ere ourselves get out and greet my father in his

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grove of trees, whereafter we will prove what policies olympias

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shall suggest to overcome our latest toils and crown our

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welcome home. This all obeyed. Bathe put on fresh attire,

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both men and women did. Then took his lyre the

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holy Singer, and set thirst on fire with songs and

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faultless dances. All the court rung with the footings that

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the numerous sport from jocund men drew, and fair girdled

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dames which heard abroad, thus flew the common fames. This

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sure the day is when the much wood queen is

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richly wed, o wretch that hath not been so constant

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as to keep her ample house till the utmost hour

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had brought her foremost spouse. Thus some conceiv'd, but little

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knew the thing. And now Eurynomy had bade the king

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smoothed him with oils, and he himself attired in Vesture's royal.

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Her part then inspired the goddess palace, deck'd his head

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and face with infinite beauties, gave a goodly grace of

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stature to him, a much plumper plight through all his body,

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breathed curls soft and bright, adorn'd his head withal, and

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made it show as if the flowry. Hyacinth did grow

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in all his pride there in the general trim of

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every lock and every curious limb. Look how a skillful

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artisan well seen in all arts Metaline, as having been

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taught by Minerva. And the god of fire, doth gold

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with silver mix, so that entire they keep their self distinction.

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And yet so that to the silver from the gold

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doth flow a much more artificial luster than his own.

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And thereby to the gold itself is grown a greater

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glory than if wrought alone, both being struck off by

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either's mix. So did Minerva hers in his combine, he

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more in her, she more in him, did shine like

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an immortal. From the bath he rose, And to his

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wife did all his grace dispose, encountering this her strangeness.

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Cruel dame of all that breathe the gods past steel

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and flame have made thee ruthless life, retains not one

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of all dames else that bears so overgrown to mind

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with abstinence as twenty years to miss her husband drowned

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in woes and tears, and at his coming keep aloof

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and fair, as of his so long absence and his

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care no sense had seized her, Go nurse, make a

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bed that I alone may sleep. Her heart is dead

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to all reflection to him, Thus replied the wise penelope,

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man half deified. Tis not my fashion to be taken

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straight with bravest men, nor poorest used to slight. Your

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mean appearance made not me retire, Nor this your rich

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show makes me now admire, nor moves it all? For

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what is all to me? If not my husband? All

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this certain I knew at parting, But so long apart

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the outward likeness holds no full dessert for me to trust.

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To go, nurse, see addressed a soft bed for him,

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and the single rest himself affects. So let it be

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the bed that stands within our bridal chamber stead, which

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he himself made. Bring it forth from thence, and see

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it furnished with magnificence. This said she to assay him,

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and did stir even his established patience, and to her

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whom thus he answered, woman, your words prove my patience. Strangely,

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who is it can move my bed out of his place?

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It shall oppress Earth's greatest understander. And unless even God

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himself come that can easily grace men in their most skills,

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it shall hold his place. For man he lives, not

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that as not most skilled, so not most young, shall

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easily make it yield. If building on the strength in

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which he flow, he adds both levers to and iron crows.

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For in the fixture of the bed is shown a masterpiece,

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a wonder, And twas done by me, and none but me,

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and thus was wrought. There was an olive tree that

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had his grot amidst a hedge, and was of shadow, proud, fresh,

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and the prime age of his verdure showed his leaves

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and arms so thick that to the eye it showed

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a column for solidity. To this I had a comprehension

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to build my bridle bower, which olive stone thick as

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the tree of leaves, I raised and cast a roof

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about it, nothing meanly graced, put glued doors to it

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that OpEd art enough. Then from the olive every broad

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leaved bough I locked away, then felled the tree, and

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then went over it, both with my axe and plane,

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both governed by my line. And then I hewed my

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curious bedstead out in which I shewed work of no

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common hand. All this begun I could not leave till

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to perfection my pains had brought it, took my wimble,

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bored the holes as fitted, and did last afford the

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varied ornament, which showed no want of silver, gold and

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polished elephant an ox hide died in purple. Then I

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threw above the cords, and thus to curious view, I

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hope I have objected honest sign to prove I author

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not that is not mine. But if my bed stand

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unremoved or know O woman passeth human wit to know

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this sunk her knees and heart to hear so true

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the signs. She urged, and first did tears and sue

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her rapt assurance. Then she ran and spread her arms

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about his neck, kissed oft his head. And thus the

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curious day she made excused, ulysses, be not angry that

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I use such strange delays to this, since heretofore your

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suffering wisdom hath the garland war from all that breathe,

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And tis the gods that, thus, with mutual mists so

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long afflicting us, have caused my coyness to our youths,

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envied that wish society that should have tied our youths

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and years together. And since now judgment and duty should

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our age allow as full joys therein, as in youth

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and blood, see all young anger and reproof withstood for

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not at first sight giving up my arms, my heart

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still trembling, lest the false alarms that words oft strike

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up should ridiculize me. Had our guive Helen known credulity

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would bring such plagues with it, and her again as

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authoress of them all, with that ful stain to her

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and to her country. She had stayed her love and

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mixture from a stranger's bed. But God impelled her to

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a shameless deed, because she had not in her self

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decreed before the attempt that such acts still were shan't

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as simply in themselves as in the event by which

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not only she herself sustains, but we, for her fault,

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have paid mutual pain. Yet now, since these signs of

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our certain bed you have discovered and distinguished from all

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Earth's others, no one man but you yet ever getting

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of it the only show, nor one of all dames

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but myself and she my father gave old actor's progeny.

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Who ever gathered to ourselves the door of that thick

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shaded chamber, I no more will cross your clear persuasion,

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though till now I stood too doubtful and austere to you.

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These words of hers, so justifying her stay, did more

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desire of joyful moan convey to his glad mind than

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if at an instant's sight she had allowed him all

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his wishes right. He wept for joy to enjoy a

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wife so fit for his grave mind, that knew his

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depth of wit, and held chaste virtue at a price

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so high. And as sad men at sea when shore

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is nigh, which long their hearts have wished, their ship

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quite lost by Neptune's rigor, and they vexed and tossed

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TwixT winds and black waves, swimming for their lives. A

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few escaped, and that few that survives, all drenched in

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foem and brine, crawl up to land with joy as

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much as they did world's command. So dear to his

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wife was her husband's sight, who still embraced his neck,

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and had till light displayed her silver ensign. If the

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dame that bears the blue sky intermixed with flame in

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her fair eyes had not enfixed her thought on other joys,

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for loves so hardly brought to long for meeting, who

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the extended night withheld in long date, Nor would let

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the light her winged hoof horse join lampus feet on

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those ever colts that bring the morning on to worldly men.

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But in her golden chair down to the ocean, by

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her silver hair bound her aspirings. Then, Ulysses, said, o wife,

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nor yet are my contentions stayed? A most unmeasured labor,

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long and hard asks more performance to it, being prepared

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by grave Tyresius. When down to Hell, I made dark

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passage that his skill might tell my men's return and mine.

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But come and now enjoy the sweet rest that our

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fates allow. The place of rest is ready, She replied,

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Your will it full service, since the deified have brought

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you where your right is to command. But since you

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know God making understand your searching mind, inform me what

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must be your last set labor? Since twill fall to

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me I hope to hear it after. Tell me now

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the greatest pleasure is before to know. Unhappy, said Ulysses,

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to what end importune you this labor? It will lend

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nor you nor me delight. But you shall know I

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was commanded yet more to bestow my years in travel

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many cities more by sea to visit, And when first

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for shore I left my shipping, I was willed to

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take a naval oar in hand, and with it make

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my passage forth till such strange men I met, as

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knew no sea, nor ever salt, did eat with any victuals,

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who the purple beaks of ships did never see, nor

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that which breaks the waves in curls, which is a

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fan like ore, and serves as wings with which a

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ship doth soar. To let me know, then, when I

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was arrived on that strange earth where such a people lived,

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he gave me this for an unfailing sign. When anyone

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that took that ore of mine borne on my shoulder

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for a corn cleansed fan, I met ashore and showed

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to be a man of that land's labor. There had

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I command to fix mine ore and offer on that

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strand to Imperial Neptune, whom I must implore a lamb,

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a bull, and a sow ascending boar, And then turn home,

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where all the other gods that in the broad heaven

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made secure abodes, I must solicit all my curious heed

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given to the several rites they have decreed with holy hecatombs,

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and then at home, a gentle death should seize me

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that would come from out the sea and take me

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to his rest in full ripe age about me living

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blessed my loving people, to which he presaged the sequel

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of my fortunes were engaged. If, then said she, the

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gods will please to impose a happier being to your

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fortune's clothes than went before. Your hope gives comfort strength

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that life shall lend you better days. At length, while

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this discourse spent mutual speech, the bed Uryymy and nurse

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had made and spread with richest furniture, while torches spent

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their parcel guilt thereon to bed. Then went the aged nurse,

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and where their sovereigns were Urynymy, the chambermaid did bear

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a torch, and went before them to their rest, to

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which she left them, and for hers addressed the King

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and Queen. Then, now as newlywed, resumed the old laws

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of the embracing bed. Telemachus and both his herdsmen then

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dissolved the dances, both the maids and men, who in

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their shady roofs, took timely sleep. The bride and bridegroom,

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having ceased to keep observed love joys. From their fit delight,

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they turned to talk. The queen then did recite what

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she had suffered by the hateful rout of harmful woars

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who had eaten her out, so many oxen and so

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many sheep, how many ton of wine their drinking deep

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had quite exhausted great ulysses. Then whatever slaughters he had

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made of men, whatever sorrows, he himself sustained repeated samply,

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and her ears remained with all delight, attentive to their end.

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Nor would one wink sleep till he told her all

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beginning where he gave the sickens fall from thence his pasted,

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the latophagy, the cyclops acts, the putting out his eye,

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and the reek of all the soldiers he had eaten.

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No less ruth shown to all they could entreat his

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way to Eelus, his prompt receipt and kind dismission, his

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enforced retreat by sudden tempests to the fishy Maine, and

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quite distraction from his course again, his landing at the

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least dragonian port, where ships and men in miserable sort

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met all their spoils. His ship and he alone got

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off from the abhorred confusion his past to Circi heard

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a seats in arts, his thence dissension to the infernal parts,

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his life's course of the theban prophet learned where all

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the slaughtered Grecians he discerned and loved mother his astonished

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ear with what the siren's voices made him hear, his

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escape from the erring rocks with silhahwahs and rough Charybdis,

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with the dangerous pass of all that touched there, his

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Sicilian offense given to the sun, his every man destroyed

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by thunder, vollied out of heaven that split his ship,

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his own endeavors driven to s shift for succors on

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the Ogygian shore, where nymph Calypso's such affection bore to

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him in his arrival, that with feast she kept in

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inner caves and would have blessed his welcome life with

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an immortal state, would he have stayed and lived her

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nuptial mate, all which she never could persuade him to

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his past to the Fiacians spent in woe, their hearty

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welcome of him as he were a god descended from

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the starry sphere, their kind dismission of him home with

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gold brass garments, all things his occasions would this last

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word used sleep seized his weary eye that salves all

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care to all mortality in mean space. Pallas entertained intent

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that when Ulysses thought enough time spent in Lovejoy's with

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his wife to raise the day and make his grave

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occasions call away, the morning rose and he when thus

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he said, O Queen, now satiate with afflictions laid on

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both our bosom, you will press it here with cares

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for my return. I everywhere by Jove and all the

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deities tossed, even till all our hope of my return

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was lost, and both arrived at this sweet haven our

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bed be your care used to see administered my house possessions,

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left those sheep that were consumed in surfeits by your wooers.

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Here i'll forge to supply with some and more the

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suffering grecians shall be made restore, even till our stalls

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receive their wonted fail. And now to comfort my good

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father's ill, long suffered for me, to the many treed

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and ample vineyard grounds, it is decreed in my next

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care that I must haste and see his longed fore presence.

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In the meantime be your wisdom used that since the

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sun ascended, the fame will soon be through the town,

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extended of those I here have slain. Yourself, got close

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up to your chamber, see you there repose, cheered with

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your women, and nor look afford without your court, nor

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any man a word. This said. He arm'd to arms

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both son and Swain, his power commanding who did entertain

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his charge with spirit, OpEd the gates, and out he

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leading all, and now was hurled about Aurora's ruddy fire,

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through all whose light Minerva led them through the town

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from sight end of the twenty third book