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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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32. A good Shepherd onely shears his Sheep, &c.

None could perswade Tiberius, to play
The Tyrant, for a while; nor would He lay
Taxations on the Provinces. The Wool,
A carefull Shepherd clips; Kings must not pull,

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Their Subjects skins over their Eares. 'Tis right;
But, who Complements thus? An Hypocrite.