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VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: PROLOGUE by JOSEPH HALL

First Line: OR BENE THE MANES OF THAT CYNIC SPRIGHT
Last Line: AND WOUND, AND STRIKE, AND PARDON WHOM SHE LIST.
Subject(s): ENEMIES; HEARTS;

@3Or bene the@1 Manes @3of that@1 Cynick @3spright,
Cloth'd with some stubburn clay & led to light?
Or do the relique ashes of his graue
Reuiue and rise from their forsaken caue?
That so with gall-weet words and speeches rude,
Controls the maners of the multitude.
Enuie belike incites his pining heart,
And bids it sate it selfe with others smart.
Nay, no dispight: but angry@1 Nemesis,
@3Whose scourge doth follow all that done amisse:
That scourge I beare, albe in ruder fist,
And wound, and strike, and pardon whom she list.@1



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