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Usefuller Tydeus was albeit (an trust we to Homer)In his diminutive frame dwelt a pugnacious soul.Yet from this strangeness and shame could nothing ever avail usAnd such damage I deem better it were to repel.

While there is life 'tis fitting to hope, O rustical guardian!Here be thou present and thou aid us, Priapus stiff-nerved.