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To Flaccus. Extortioners, Cormorauntes.
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To Flaccus. Extortioners, Cormorauntes.
One sillie drop of water asktthe glotton greedie gorche
With humble sute, to swage the heat
that so his tonge did scorche:
Yet neuer robd he as I reed,
the poore of ought hym selfe to feed.
If that be cause he would not giue,
thus plaugd the riche man was
With torments suche in hell, what shall
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That nothyng giue, but still oppresse
poore widdowes, and the fatherles.
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