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These seeds of discord which began to rise
To active growth, by th' honorable Spies

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Of other Princes seen, had soon betraid
Our States obscure disease, and call'd to aid
Ambitious subjects, forein powers, whose strength,
First but as physick us'd, was grown at length
Our worst disease, which whilst we hop'd for cure,
Turn'd our slow Hectique to a Calenture.