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Book 13. And till the threatning Influence was past, A Woman's Habit on the Hero cast: All Eyes were cozen'd by the borrow'd Vest, And Ajax (never wiser than the rest) Found no Pelides there: At length I came With proffer'd Wares to this pretended Dame; She, not discover'd by her Mien, or Voice, Betray'd her Manhood by her manly Choice; And while on Female Toys her Fellows look, Grasp'd in her Warlike Hand, a Javelin shook; Whom, by this Act reveal'd, I thus bespoke: O Goddess-born! resist not Heav'n's Decree, The Fall of Ilium is reserv'd for thee; Then seiz'd him, and produc'd in open Light, Sent blushing to the Field the fatal Knight. Mine then are all his Actions of the War; Great Telephus was conquer'd by my Spear, And after cur'd: To me the Thebans owe, Lesbos, and Tenedos their overthrow; Syros and Cylla: Not on all to dwell, By me Lyrnesus, and strong Chrysa fell: And since I sent the Man who Hector slew, To me the noble Hector's Death is due: Those Arms I put into his living Hand, Those Arms, Pelides dead, I now demand. When Greece was injur'd in the Spartan Prince, And met at Aulis to avenge th' Offence, 'Twas a dead Calm, or adverse Blasts, that reign'd, And in the Port the Wind-bound Fleet detain'd: Bad Signs were seen, and Oracles severe, Were daily thunder'd in our Gen'ral's Ear; That by his Daughter's Blood we must appease Diana's kindled Wrath, and free the Seas. Affection, Int'rest, Fame, his Heart assail'd; But soon the Father o'er the King prevail'd: Bold, on himself he took the pious Crime, As angry with the Gods, as they with him. No