But sooth to say though my triumphant Muse

Seemeth to vant as in got victorie,

And with puissant stroke the head to bruize

Of her stiff so, and daze his phantasie,

Captive his reason, dead each facultie:

Yet in her self so strong a force withstands

That of her self afraid, she’ll not aby,

Nor keep the field. She’ll fall by her own hand

As Ajax once laid Ajax dead upon the strand.

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