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VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: THE CONCLUSION OF ALL by JOSEPH HALL

First Line: THUS HAVE I WRIT IN SMOOTHER CEDAR TREE
Last Line: AND MEET MY FAR-FETCH'D STRIPES WITH WAITING SIDES.
Subject(s): WRITING & WRITERS;

@3Thus haue I writ in smother Cedar tree,
So gentle Satyrs, pend so easily.
Henceforth I write in crabbed oke-tree rinde:
Search they that meane the secret meaning finde.
Hold out ye guiltie, and ye galled hides,
And meet my far-fetch'd stripes with waiting sides.@1



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