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Epigram. 73. In Cinnam.

So long as Cinna holds his peace, he's tooke,
To bee a Wiseman, onely for his looke,
But he no sooner speakes, but men discry him,
And find his countenance did foule belye him:
Were Cinna dumbe, he had a hapy turne,
Or if to hold his peace he could but learne;
Silence in most showes wit, in Fooles alone
It makes men think th' haue some when they haue none.