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54 Right many a widow his keen blade, And many fatherless, had made. He many a boar and huge dun-cow Did, like another Guy, o'erthrow; But Guy, with him in fight compared, Had like the boar or dun-cow fared. With greater troops of sheep h' had fought Than Ajax, or bold Don Quixote; And many a serpent of fell kind, With wings before, and stings behind, a Subdued; as poets say, long agone, Bold Sir George St George did the dragon. Nor engine, nor device polemic, Disease, nor doctor epidemic, Tho' stored with deletery med'cines, Which whosoever took is dead since, E'er sent so vast a colony To both the under worlds as he.