The Mastive, or Young-Whelpe of the Olde-Dogge Epigrams and Satyrs [by Henry Parrot] |
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Ut Tempora, Mores.
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Ut Tempora, Mores.
In Times of yore, was neither Bond nor Bill,For each would then his word, by word fulfill:
Till when crept in this strange Catastrophe,
As some for conformation, wrote Per me.
Which now say Scriueners, non est ita mos,
It must be Nouerint per presentes nos.
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