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9. How a valiant man ought to behave himselfe towards those, that basely offer to offend him.
Hee is beyond the reach of common men,Who can despise an injury; for as
The billowes of the Sea insult in vaine,
Against a Rocke: a stout breast finds no cause,
Of being commov'd at wrongs, whereof the Dart
Resiles from him, as from a brasen Wall,
On the offender, while his mighty heart,
And noble mind, far more sublime, then all
The Regions of the Ayre, most bravely scorne
Th'inferiour dangers of a boystrous storme.
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