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or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...

Pecke, Thomas

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55. The Courtier.

If you be Good already, then in time,
You will be better; but scarce higher climbe:

If you be great already, in time you,
May become greater; but scarce better grow.