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Ad Posthumum Causidicum, Epig. 19.

No action of battery,
Of murder, or of poyson, I
Pursue: but of three Kids bereft
I doe accuse my Neighbour's theft.
The Judge requires how I it know:
Thou tell'st th'Apulian overthrow,
The Pontick war, and perjury
Of Hannibal's rash cruelty,
Scylla and Marius, Mutius wrath,
With open mouth, and spead armes both.

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Now Posthumus I prethee tell
At last where I my Kids may smell.