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TO
EDWARD
Earle of Dorcet, after
his Sicknesse, and
happy recovery.

My Lord,I find the Gentry so o're-joy'd i'th Towne,As if all Prisons (safely) were rac'd downe:As if, the Judges would no more resistWrongs with the Law, but each turne Duelist;And not with Statutes, but with Rapiers fence,At Mason's ward to succour Innocence.As if some trusty Poet now had binChosen with full voyce City-Chamberlin;

Their

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