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Be therefore heedful that by your dissention
You make not seizable her ill intention
By trusting to the Complements of those
Who are her vassals, and your secret foes,

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And (as you, oft do) speak fair, but to deceive
That they without suspicion may contrive
Your whole destruction, and recover power
To re-enlarge their Babylonian Tower.
Which, is this day as truly their design,
As those thoughts, whereon, now I think, are mine.