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 | Miscellaneous works of George Wither |  |
It is no easie matter to devise
What would become of all those Butter-flies
Who flutter up and down in Princes Courts,
If their oppressive Projects of all sorts
Were took away; and what case were they in
Who at this day do live upon the sin
Of one another? But they'l be supply'd
What ever to the Publick shall betide;
And at the last, (although their Friends they seem)
Destroy those Governments that nourish'd them,
Unless, according to what's just and true
Themselves they modulize, with speed, anew;
Which, how, and by whom, that might well be done
Were an Expedient worthy muzing on.
What would become of all those Butter-flies
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If their oppressive Projects of all sorts
Were took away; and what case were they in
Who at this day do live upon the sin
Of one another? But they'l be supply'd
What ever to the Publick shall betide;
And at the last, (although their Friends they seem)
Destroy those Governments that nourish'd them,
Unless, according to what's just and true
Themselves they modulize, with speed, anew;
Which, how, and by whom, that might well be done
Were an Expedient worthy muzing on.
| Miscellaneous works of George Wither | |