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The Works in Verse and Prose

(including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes

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5. Epi. 9.

[Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes]

Westminster is a mill that grinds all causes,
but grinde his cause for mee there, he yt list:
For by demures and errours, stayes and clauses,
the tole is oft made greater then the grist.