"Then forth he came, his both knees falt'ring, both His strong hands hanging down, and all with froth His cheeks and nostrils flowing, voice and breath Spent to all use, and down he sunk to death. The sea had soaked his heart through; all his veins His toils had rack'd t'a labouring woman's pains. Dead weary was he."
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Book V, line 608; shipwrecked Odysseus washes up on Scheria
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George Chapman
George Chapman (c. 1559 – May 12, 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
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