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ON A ROPE-MAKER HANG'D.
Heere lyes a man, much wrong'd in his hopes,Who got his wealth backwards by making of Ropes;
It was his hard chance in his fortunes to falter,
For he liv'd by the Rope, & dyde by the halter.
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