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Truth
For Truth in Morals and Mythologies
With its own weapons Passes upon Lys.
With its own weapons Passes upon Lys.
What more Prodigious wonder can appeare
Then Naked Truth would to a Princes Eare,
Whose Interests and wills b'ing inconsistents
Th' are by their Ministers kept at a Distance?
For Truth and Princes are Antagonists,
That only meet t' incounter in the lists,
And both are sayd t' have made Confederacies
With wine and women ------ Allies:
For Truth has always been a Friend to wine
And Kings with women Natrally Combine.
Then Naked Truth would to a Princes Eare,
Whose Interests and wills b'ing inconsistents
Th' are by their Ministers kept at a Distance?
For Truth and Princes are Antagonists,
That only meet t' incounter in the lists,
And both are sayd t' have made Confederacies
With wine and women ------ Allies:
For Truth has always been a Friend to wine
And Kings with women Natrally Combine.
Reason is but the ------ way to Truth,
Which seldom has been understood in Youth,
That think they have a greater Latitude
Ore Tru and False then Travellers allowd,
That Fancy Things are not to be Receivd
Because th' are Tru, but as they are Believd.
Which seldom has been understood in Youth,
That think they have a greater Latitude
Ore Tru and False then Travellers allowd,
That Fancy Things are not to be Receivd
Because th' are Tru, but as they are Believd.
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