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No—no! Avenge me of mine adversary,

And I will welcome lifelong bondage then.

But to what championship dost summon me?

To nought of all whereof thou dreamest, king.

Seest thou this corpse, for which my tears rain down?

I see,—yet what shall come I cannot tell.

Him once I bare, and carried 'neath my zone.

One of thy sons is this, O sorrow-crushed?

Nay, not of Priam's sons by Ilium slain.

How? didst thou bear another more than these?

Yea—to my grief, meseems: thou seest him here.

Yet where was he what time the city fell?