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A passage in the eleventh book of Virgil's "AEneid" is very much to be admired, where Camilla, in her last agonies, instead of weeping over the wound she had received, as one might have expected from a warrior of her sex, considers only, like the hero of whom we are now speaking, how the battle should be continued after her death: Tum sic exspirans, &c. VIRG., AEn. xi. 820.
With that there came an Arrow keen Out of an English Bow, Which struck Earl Douglas to the Heart A deep and deadly Blow. Who never spoke more Words than these, Fight on, my merry Men all, For why, my Life is at an End, Lord Piercy sees my Fall. Merry Men, in the Language of those Times, is no more than a cheerful Word for Companions and Fellow-Soldiers. Tum sic exspirans, &c.
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