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The Whole Works of Homer

Prince of Poetts: In his Iliads, and Odysses. Translated according to the Greeke. By Geo: Chapman

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The Argvment.

Minerua, to his Natiue seate
Exhorts Vlysses sonnes retreate,
In Bed, and waking. He receiues
Gifts of Atrides; and so leaues
The Spartan Court. And, going aboord
Doth fauourable way affoord
To Theoclymenus; that was
The Argiue Augure, and sought passe;
Fled for a slaughter he had done.
Eumæus tels Laertes son,
How he became his Fathers Man;
Being sold by the Phœnician
For some agreed on Faculties;
From forth the Syrian Isle, made prise.
Telemachus arriu'd at home,
Doth to Eumæus Cottage come.