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 And now to touche thee: which of all the Greekes commendeth thee? Or seeketh thee? But Diomed communicates with mee His dooings, and alloweth mee, and thinkes him well apayd To have Ulysses ever as companion at the brayd. And sumwhat woorth you will it graunt (I trow) alone for mee Out of so many thousand Greekes by Diomed pikt to bee. No lot compelled mee to go, and yit I setting lyght As well the perrill of my foes as daunger of the nyght, Killd Dolon who about the selfsame feate that nyght did stray, That wee went out for. But I first compelld him to bewray All things concerning faythlesse Troy, and what it went about. When all was learnd, and nothing left behynd to harken out, I myght have then come home with prayse. I was not so content. Proceeding further to the Camp of Rhesus streyght I went, And killed bothe himself and all his men about his tent. And taking bothe his chariot and his horses which were whyght, Returned home in tryumph like a conquerour from fyght. Denye you mee the armour of the man whoose steedes the fo Requyred for his playing of the spye a nyght, and so May Ajax bee more kynd to mee than you are. What should I Declare unto you how my sword did waste ryght valeantly Sarpedons hoste of Lycia? I by force did overthrowe Alastor, Crome, and Ceranos, and Haly on a rowe. Alcander, and Noemon too, and Prytanis besyde, And Thoon and Theridamas, and Charops also dyde By mee, and so did Ewnomos enforst by cruell fate. And many mo in syght of Troy I slew of bacer state. There also are (O countrymen) about mee woundings, which The place of them make beawtyfull. See heere (his hand did twich His shirt asyde) and credit not vayne woordes. Lo heere the brist That alwayes to bee one in your affayres hath never mist. And yit of all this whyle no droppe of blood hath Ajax spent Uppon his fellowes. Woundlesse is his body and unrent. But what skills that, as long as he is able for to vaunt He fought against bothe Troy and Jove to save our fleete? I graunt He did so. For I am not of such nature as of spyght Well dooings to deface: so that he chalendge not the ryght