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Nocumenta, Documenta.
Sisamnes
was a PERSIAN Iudge, wee finde,
Corrupt, and false, and did foule Brybes in-bring:
His punishment was of a cruell kinde;
Hee was excoriate, by CAMBISES King:
But OTHANES, his Sonne, eschew'd that sinne,
And learn'd a Lesson from his Fathers Skinne.
Corrupt, and false, and did foule Brybes in-bring:
His punishment was of a cruell kinde;
Hee was excoriate, by CAMBISES King:
But OTHANES, his Sonne, eschew'd that sinne,
And learn'd a Lesson from his Fathers Skinne.
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Man is in Honour, and from thence throwne downe:
Is hee not then excoriate, Skinlesse, bare?
The Peasant poore, the Base, and Countrey Clowne,
Liues more secure, no Downe-fall doeth hee feare.
Farre better not beene borne, than haue a Name
Rolde in the blushing Rubrickes of blacke Shame.
Is hee not then excoriate, Skinlesse, bare?
The Peasant poore, the Base, and Countrey Clowne,
Liues more secure, no Downe-fall doeth hee feare.
Farre better not beene borne, than haue a Name
Rolde in the blushing Rubrickes of blacke Shame.
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