De justo, et tenaci propositi viro. Ad perillustrem Baronem de C-den / Adjecta versione Anglica.

  • Browne, William, 1692-1774.
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    Hoc fi Tibi pro Crimine dicitur. Heu ! quantus efiet Iuftitiae pudor ! Ut Crimen id falfo putetur, Gloria quod meritum eft haberi! Sed quid Miniftro Principis infcio, Qui Te removit, contigerit Lucri? Exofus Ipfe ut fit, Beatum ut Te faciat popularis aura ! * Duris ut Ilex tonfa bipennibus, Nigrae feraci frondis in Algido, Per damna, per caedes, ab ipfo Ducit opes animumque ferro. * Ex Horatii Ode IV. L, IV. Datur, Acidulis Bathonienfibus* , Fefto Pulveri Pyrii dete&h. MDCCLXX,. If this, in You, a Crime be natri d 0 how mufl fuflice be afiam d / fhat this a Crime is falfely - deem d, Which, Jhou d your Glory be efeemd!‘ But, by removing You> what Gain Coti d this wife Mini fer obtain f Only to find Himfelf abhorrd. And You by ali the world ador d ! * Thus* the malignant Axe, that ltrove To lop the beft Head in the Grove, So little hurt the noble Oak,, He drew frefh flrength from ev’ry flroke,. Dated, at Bath medical fprings, y Q?t Gun-Powder Fefivaly 5 MDCCLXX,..