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11. Upon his weeping over Pompey's Head.
What did thine eyes embalm Great Pompey's Head?Could it prove Sorrow, to see a Foe dead?
O admirable Cæsar! very fine,
Thy Brain should spend, unnecessary Brine.
Yet the scal'd Crocodile, out-weep Thee can:
Nay 'tis her Practise; But first Kils the Man.
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