With rivets fixed, all burnished and embossed;[[104]]

And under her she holdeth a Cadmeian,

That so on him most arrows might be shot.

No chance that he will fight a peddling fight,

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Nor shame the long, long journey he hath come,

Parthenopæos, in Arcadia born:

This man did Argos welcome as a guest,

And now he pays her for her goodly rearing,

And threatens these our towers with ... God avert it!