Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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[Easie and undiscerned is the guile]
------Sub amici fallere nomen
Tuta frequensque via est------
Tuta frequensque via est------
Easie and undiscerned is the guile
Which brings on mischiefe usher'd by a smile.
Thus many who arride the Common-weale
With joynt-pretences but disjoyn'd designe,
Their own with publique interests intwine
The better, and more covertly to steale
Advantage to a party, putting on
A forme of Paralell-expression,
Faced with Good and Safety; yet extend
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Of time, they'l never meet, but hold a course
In lasting distance still, from ill to worse!
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