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230 may be with great justice suspected whenever they are found a second time. Thus Waller probably owed to Grotius an elegant compliment:

And Prior was indebted for a pretty illustration to Alleyne's poetical history of Henry the Seventh:

And with yet more certainty may the same writer be censured, for endeavouring the clandestine appropriation of a thought which he borrowed, surely without thinking himself disgraced, from an epigram of Plato:

Τῆ Παφίῃ τὸ κάτοπτρον· ἔπει τοίη μὲν ὁρᾶσθαι Οὐκ ἐθέλω, ὅιη δ' ἧν πάρος, οὐ δυναμαι.

Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was; What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see.