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Thus having fpoke, th' ilkiflrlons chief of Troy 



Stretch'd his fond arms to clafp the lovely boy. 



The babe clung crying to his nurfe's breaft, 



Scar'd at the dazzling helm and nodding creft : 



With fecret pleafure each fond parent fmil'd, 



And He(5lor hafled to relieve his child. 



The glittering terrors froni his brows unbound, 



And plac'd the beaming heln:ket on the ground. 



Then klfs'd the child, and lifting high in air, 



Thus to the Gods preferr'd a father's prayer. Pope. 



So faying, illuftrious Hector ftretch'd his arms 



Forth to his fon, but w^ith a fcream the child 



Fell back into the bofom of his nurfe. 



His father's afpedl dreading, whofe bright arms 



He had attentive mark'd, and ihaggy creft 



Playing tremendous o'er his helmet's heighth. 



His father and his gentle mother laughed, 



And noble Hedlor lifting from his head 



His dazzling helmet, placed it on the ground : 



Then kifs'd the boy, and dandled him, and thus 



In earneft prayer the heavenly powers implor'd*. Cowpbr. 



Mk. 



* The paiTage in the original (lands thus, vide Clarke's Homer, II. vi. verf. 466 to end of 475 : 



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