The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702) excluding Seneca and Manilius Introduced and Annotated by F. J. Van Beeck |
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I'm Thales, who maintain (as Pindar sings)
VVater to be the originall of Things,
And on the Stage (as those before) am come
T'assert the Truth of my own Axiom.
Perhaps by some 't may be offensive thought:
But not by those by sad experience taught.
Εγγυα παρεστι δ' ατη, say we,
Be Surety, and be sure a loser be.
A thousand Instances I could produce
To prove Repentance is the only use
That can be made of it, but that We here
Examples by their Names to cite, forbear.
Make your own Application, and conceive
The Damage, Men by this sole Act receive.
Nor this our good Intention take amiss.
You that like, clap, you that dislike it, hiss.
Exit.
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