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Show T HE PROLOGUE. IN Antient Times, when Hdkn's fatal Charms Rous'd the contending Univerfe to Arms, The Grecian Council happily deputes The Sly UlyfTes forth to raife Recruits. The Artful Captain found, without delay, Where Great Achilles, a Deferter lay. H i m Fate had warn'd to fhun the Trojan Blows: Him Greece requird againft their Trojan Foes. All the Recruiting Arts were needful here To raife this Great, this timrous Volunteer. UlyfTes well could talk He fiirs, he warms The Warlike Touth- He lifiens to the Charms Of Plunder, fine lacd Coats, and glitt'ring Arms. UlyfTes caught the young afpiring Boy, And lifted him who wrought the Fate of Troy. T h m by Recruiting was bold Hector flain: Recruiting thus fair Hellen did regain. If for One Hellen fuch prodigious things Were acted, that they evn lifted Kings; If for one Hellen'/ artful vicious Charms Half the tranfported World was found in Arms; What for fo many Hellens may W e dare, Whofe Minds as well as Faces, are fo Fair? If, by One Hellene Eyes, Old Greece cou'd find, It's Homeifird to write Evn Homer blind; The Britains fure beyond compare may write, That viewfo M a n y Hellens every Night. Aa Dramatis |