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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

See how the poor do waiting stand For the expansion of thy hand. A wafer dol'd by thee will swell Thousands to feed by miracle.

Still to our gains our chief respect is had; Reward it is that makes us good or bad.

Nothing is new; we walk where others went; There's no vice now but has his precedent.

Look how the rainbow doth appear But in one only hemisphere; So likewise after our decease No more is seen the arch of peace. That cov'nant's here, the under-bow, That nothing shoots but war and woe.