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The Argvment.

Achilles orders Iusts of exequies
For his Patroclus; and doth sacrifise
Twelue Troian Princes; most lou'd hounds and horse;
And other offerings, to the honour'd Corse.
He institutes, besides, a funerall game;
Where Diomed, for horse-race, wins the fame:
For foote, Vlysses; others otherwise
Striue, and obtaine: and end the exequies.