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PROLOGUE
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In Troy | there lies | the scene:| from isles |
of Greece
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The prin|ces or|gulous, their // high blood
chafed
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Have to | the port | of A|thens sent | their
ships
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Fraught with | the min|isters | and inst|ruments
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Of cru|el war:| sixty | and nine | that wore
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Their crown|ets re|gal, from | the Athe|nian bay
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Put forth | toward Phry/gia, and | their vow | is
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To ransack Troy,| within | whose strong | immures
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The ra|vished He|len, Me|nela|us' queen,
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With want|on Par|is sleeps,| and that's | the
quarrel.
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To Te|nedos | they come, \\
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And the / deep-draw|ing barks | do there |
disgorge
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Their war|like^fraught|age: now | on Dar|dan
plains
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The fresh | and yet | unbrui|sed Greeks | do
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Their brave | pavil|ions, Priam's | six-gated
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Dardan and | Tymbria,| Helias,| Chetas,| Troien,
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And An|teno|rides | with mas|sy sta||ples
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And cor|respon|sive and | fulfil|ling bolts
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Stir up | the sons | of Troy.
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Now^ex|pecta|tion tick|ling skit|tish spirits,
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On one | and oth|er side,| Troyan | and Greek,
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Sets^all | on haz|ard. And | hither | am I come,
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A pro|logue^armed,| but not | in con|fidence
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Of auth|or's pen,| or ac|tor's voice;| but
sui||ted
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In like | condi|tions, as | our arg|ument;
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To tell | you (fair | behol|ders) that | our play
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Leaps^ore | the vaunt | and first|lings of |
those^broils,
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Begin|ning in the mid|dle: star|ting thence |
away,
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To what | may be | diges|ted in | a play:
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Like, or find fault,| do as | your pleas|ures
are,
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Now good,| or bad,| 'tis but | the chance | of
war.