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TALTHYBIUS, ULYSSES, ERIPHILUS.
TALTHYBIUS.
Great Agamemnon, and the Grecian chiefs
Intreat your royal presence.
ULYSSES.
At my tent
[To Eriphilus.
Meet me anon; and do not fear success.
But yet take heed, young man: be not too sure,
For danger loves to lurk close by the side
Of negligent security. Repeat
Thy suit no more, till the due rites are done
To great Achilles. Importunity
Creates suspicion. Know, thou can'st not act
With too much caution: ev'n the surest step
May lose its footing on this slippery world.
[Exit Uly. and Tal.
ERIPHILUS.
False coz'ning Greek!—But, ah! what fairy vision
Breaks on m' enchanted sight?—it comes upon me;
The floating form of some divinity,
That tends this mansion!
TALTHYBIUS.
Great Agamemnon, and the Grecian chiefs
Intreat your royal presence.
ULYSSES.
At my tent
[To Eriphilus.
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But yet take heed, young man: be not too sure,
For danger loves to lurk close by the side
Of negligent security. Repeat
Thy suit no more, till the due rites are done
To great Achilles. Importunity
Creates suspicion. Know, thou can'st not act
With too much caution: ev'n the surest step
May lose its footing on this slippery world.
[Exit Uly. and Tal.
ERIPHILUS.
False coz'ning Greek!—But, ah! what fairy vision
Breaks on m' enchanted sight?—it comes upon me;
The floating form of some divinity,
That tends this mansion!
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