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"Cedo jam, miseræ cognoscens præmia rixæ, Si rixa est, ubi tu pulsas ego vapulo tantum."

Sherry, inglorious, To Dan the victorious, Presents, as 'tis fitting, Petition and greeting. TO you, victorious and brave, Your now subdued and suppliant slave, Most humbly sues for pardon; Who when I fought still cut me down, And when I vanquish’d fled the town, Pursued and laid me hard on. Now lowly crouch'd I cry peccavi, And prostrate supplicate pour ma vie, Your mercy I rely on; For you, my conqueror and my king, In pardoning, as in punishing, Will show yourself a lion. Alas! sir, I had no design, But was unwarily drawn in; For spite I ne'er had any; 'Twas the damn'd 'squire with the hard name; The de'el too that ow'd me a shame, The devil and Delany; They tempted me t'attack your highness, And then, with wonted wile and slyness, They