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Disparage not, oh glorious dame,

Honor'd possession of highest estate!

For sole unto thee is the greatest boon given;

The fame of beauty that all over-towers!

The hero's name before him resounds,

So strides he with pride;

Nathless at once the stubbornest yields

To beauty, the presence which all things subdues.