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Epigram. 40. In Swadde.

Swadde's in Commission, yet but beares the name,
For all the roast is ruled by his dame,
Sh'examines, bailes, bindes ouer, and releases,
Remits and Mittimusseth whom she pleases,
To all that come to him for wrongs redresse,
His wife's the Iustice, he but of the peace.