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First Line: Words beget anger: anger brings forth blowes
Last Line: Then for to murder friendship, by dispute.
Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary


Words beget Anger: Anger brings forth blowes:
Blowes make of dearest friends immortall Foes.
For which prevention (Sociate) let there be
Betwixt us two no more Logomachie.
Farre better 'twere for either to be mute,
Then for to murder friendship, by dispute.





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