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Cease the sage Grecian, and the Man of Troy to vaunt long Voyage made in bygone day: Cease Alexander, Trajan cease to ’joy the fame of vict’ories that have pass’d away: The noble Lusian’s stouter breast sing I, whom Mars and Neptune dared not disobey: Cease all that antique Muse hath sung, for now a better Brav’ry rears its bolder brow.