But let the potent orator declaim,

And with the brand of coward blot my name;

}

{ Free leave is given him, when his fatal hand

{ Has covered with more corps the sanguine strand,

{ And high as mine his towering trophies stand.

If any doubt remains, who dares the most,

Let us decide it at the Trojans' cost,

And issue both a-breast, where honour calls—

(Foes are not far to seek without the walls,)