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And this proud Town to raise on Lybian Shores, With high Commands, a savage Race to awe, And to the barb’rous Natives give the Law, We wretched, an abandon’d Race, Tost round the Seas, implore your royal Grace; Oh! check your Subjects, and their Rage reclaim, E’er their wild Fury wrap our Fleet in Flame. Oh! save a pious Race; regard our Cry; And view our Anguish with a melting Eye. We come not, mighty Queen, an hostile Band, With Sword and Fire, and, ravaging the Land, To bear your Spoils triumphant to the Shore: Noto such Thoughts the vanquish’d dare not soar. Once by Oenotrians till’d, there lies a Place, ’Twas call’d by the Grecian Race, (For martial Deeds, and Fruits, renown’d by Fame) But since,, from the Leader’s Name; Rh