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46. Upon his inhumane Wish.
Nero hearing one say, that when he dy'd,He car'd not if the Earth in Fire were fry'd;
Belch'd forth this wish; O might I live to see,
The World grone under, that Catastrophe!
'Twere frivolous Alecto should so do:
Thy Tyranny, may serve both Her and You.
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