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24 Compassion with his Terror, and by throwing Water on the Flame maketh it burn the brighter; so in the Storms, so in his Battles on the Fall of Pallas and Camilla: and that Scene of Horror, which his Hero opens in the second Book: the Burning of Troy: the Ghost of Hector: the Murder of the King: the Massacre of the People: the sudden Surprize and the Dead of Night are so reliev'd by the Piety and Pity that is every where intermix'd, that we forget our Fears, and join in the Lamentation. All the World acknowledgeth the Æneid to be most Perfect in its Kind; and considering the Disadvantage of Rh