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Miscelanea

Meditations. Memoratiues. By Elizabeth Grymeston

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[Crush the serpent in the head]

Crush the serpent in the head,
Breake ill egges yer they be hatched.
Kill bad chickens in the tread,
Fledge they hardly can be catched.
In the rifling stifle ill,
Lest it grow against thy will.