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146. Omnia Vanitas. All is Vanity.
VVhat showers of Tears! had Heraclitus seen,Our times: Democritus had burst his spleen.
But one Democritus cannot suffice,
To Laugh at such mad Tricks, as men devise.
And Heraclitus eyes approach not nigh;
Due Lamentations, for our Misery.
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