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23Qui fuit arte Pedes.

The case is alter'd with Mercutio,
Since his preferment to that Noble man,
What er'st he hath beene, boots not now to know,
Those times are chang'd you see, what's then was then.
I dare presume Mercutio doth forget,
That euer he a Bill in Paules did set.