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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.

Penelope proposeth now,
To him that drawes Vlysses Bow
Her instant Nuptials. Ithacus,
Eumæus, and Philætius,
Giues charge for guarding of the Gates;
And he, his shaft shoots through the plates.