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Rh Homer'* Life and Writings'. Reduan! Thou must remember How thou plighted ha/l thy Word; To make the City Ian surrender In a Night won by thy Sword. Reduan ! if thou prevail; Then Til double all thy Pay : But, Reduan, if thou shalt fail; In Granade thou must notstay;







Necbss ity is the Mother of Inventions Nature first taught The human Tongue to form its various Sounds;

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Woods, and were sustained by the fame sort of Food as the Beasts feed upon. Hardly did they manage any thing by Art or Contrivance, but all by strength of Body and plain Force.

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