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First Line: When their lordships asked bacon %how many bribes he had taken
Last Line: He had at least the grace %to get very red in the face
Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C.
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Bribery; Philosophy And Philosophers




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