The Mastive, or Young-Whelpe of the Olde-Dogge Epigrams and Satyrs [by Henry Parrot] |
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Multi uidentur & non sunt.
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Multi uidentur & non sunt.
Call Clinias Coward, he outragious than;Dares to aduenture life with any man.
Prouided he be not's superiour,
His vnderling or base inferiour,
Nor yet his fellow: for saith Clinias,
Should any of these euils come to passe,
Tis ten to one the quarrell neuer ends;
If I kill him, hee'l kill me by his friends,
Or if my Vassall; conquest is not much,
A noble minde disdaines to fight with such:
And if my fellow; Wisedome tells too late,
True fellowship consists in Loue, not hate:
Bring Clinias one that is not of these three,
And then to fight ther's none so bold as he.
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