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62 My husband! Vainly didst thou boast erewhile Thine arm, thy dauntless courage, and thy spear, The warlike Menelaus should subdue! Go now again, and challenge to the fight The warlike Menelaus.—Be thou ware! I warn thee, pause, ere madly thou presume With fair-haired Menelaus to contend!" (D.

Brave words! but still, as of old, the fatal spells of Venus are upon her, and Paris' misadventure in the lists is all too soon condoned.