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Слушать(AI)To Dr F B[eale] On His Book Of Chesse
Sir, how unravell'd is the golden fleece:
Men, that could only fool at
OX
ND
SE,
Are new-made polititians by thy book,
And both can judge and conquer with a look.
The hidden fate of princes you unfold;
Court, clergy, commons, by your law control'd.
Strange, serious wantoning all that
Bluster'd and clutter'd for, you
AY.
Richard Lovelace
Richard Lovelace (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the kin
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