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EPIGRAM 8.
[What need that House be daub'd with flesh and blood?]
What need that House be daub'd with flesh and blood?Hang'd round with silks and gold; repair'd with food?
Cost idly spent! That cost does but prolong
Thy thraldome; Foole, thou mak'st thy Jayle too strong.
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