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80 Of Soothsaying, to the Queene of England.

Might Queenes shun future mischiefe by foretelling,
Thē among Soothsayers 'twere excellent dwelling:
But if there be no means, such harms expelling,
The knowledge makes the grief, the more excelling.
Well, yet deare Liege, my soule this comfort doth,
That of these Soothsayers very few say sooth.