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38. There was also intended for that Book, the Picture of an Asse, (in reference to the Title,) with this Epigram.
We burthen not the dumb Asse, which you see:Our Pen must scourge, lavish Garrulitie.
No shame to teach a Prating Brute: Alasse,
It was an Angels Task; to stop an Asse.
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