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THE CHACE.
Book II.
Lions on Tygers prey, and Bears on Wolves: 440Horrible Discord! 'Till the Crowd behindShouting pursue, and part the bloody Fray.At once their Wrath subsides; tame as the LambThe Lion hangs his Head, the furious Pard,Cow'd and subdu'd, flies from the Face of Man, 445Nor bears one Glance of his commanding Eye.So abject is a Tyrant in Distress.
 At last within the narrow Plain confin'd,A listed Field, mark'd out for bloody Deeds,An Amphitheatre more glorious far 450Than ancient Rome cou'd boast, they crowd in heaps,Dismay'd, and quite appall'd. In meet ArraySheath'd in refulgent Arms, a noble BandAdvance; great Lords of high Imperial Blood,Early resolv'd t'assert their Royal Race, 455And prove by glorious Deeds their Valour's Growth

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