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EPIGRAM CCLXI.
[Would you th' extremes of human contrast fix?]
SIC ERAT IN FATIS.
Would you th' extremes of human contrast fix?
Observe Dutch traffic—and Dutch politics.
Nothing's too much to suffer, or to do,
Provided still, it makes one stiver two:
By land, by sea, for friends, for foes they trade;—
Then—cut each other's throat for a cockade:
Trust in French faith for independent sway;
Buy all;—sell all;—and give themselves away!
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