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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

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Epigram 10. Being a Translation of this Latin verse, composed by Dr Hensloe

Herodes pro uno truncavit mille, nec unus,
Quem petiit, cecidit, tam bene rem detegit.

Herod for one a thousand slew,
Yet of that one did faile,


For he from Herods fury flew,
There Herod hit the naile.