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EPIGRAM XLVII.
[Let poets for goddesses rack their invention]
BREVIS ESSE LABORO.
Let poets for goddesses rack their invention;
Let philosophers dress up ideas of virtue;
Let historians to merit invite our attention,
While fable, or fancy, or fact, they recur to:—
We can put all they say, aye and more, all they mean,
Into one little syllable's compass—the Queen!
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