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Epig. XXX. In Scyllam.

Coy Scylla sweares that she will neuer loue me,
Rayles at my rimes; and sayes, that she wil proue me
A traytor to the sex; yet none shall find,
That I was euer false to woman kind,
She sayes their secrets are disclos'd by me,
And so condemnes me; yet in Charitie
I should be quit, were women of my iurie,
Since 'twas in heat of bloud, and writ in Furie.