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The Iliad in a Nutshell:

OR,

Homer's BATTLE

OF THE

FROGS and MICE.

I.
our Aid^[1], ye Heav'n-born Muses^[2], hither bring,
Who sung the wandring Greek and Ilium's Wars,

1. v. 1. Your Aid.] Bossu acquaints us the Invocation is necessary, because the Poet reports what he cannot be suppos'd to know, if some Deity had not inspir'd him; not that the Muse signifies any thing else, but the Qualifications requisite to Poetry.
2. Ibid. Muses.] The Poet to win the Attention of the Reader, and warning us he is about to relate something surprizing, invokes not one Muse, but the whole number.

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