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Small poems of Divers sorts

Written by Sir Aston Cokain

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101. Of Augustus Cæsar, and Marcus Antonius.

Augustus was to Ovid too unkind,
Who him not onely banish't, but confin'd
Him; had the noble Anthony o'recome,
He might have led his life, and di'd in Rome.
But of these two great Romans this is known,
Cæsar caus'd others deaths, Marcus his own.