"Then swell’d his waves, then rag’d, then boil’d again Against Achilles. Up flew all, and all the bodies slain In all his deeps (of which the heaps made bridges to his waves) He belch’d out, roaring like a bull. The unslain yet he saves In his black whirlpits vast and deep. A horrid billow stood About Achilles. On his shield the violence of the Flood Beat so, it drave him back, and took his feet up, ... The rage did terrify Ev’n his great spirit, and made him add wings to his swiftest feet, And tread the land. And yet not there the Flood left his retreat, But thrust his billows after him, and black’d them all at top, To make him fear, and fly his charge, and set the broad field ope For Troy to ’scape in."
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