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<p>A tyrannous, or wicked Magistrat,<lb/> Is fitly represented by a Catt :<lb/> For, though the Mice a harmfull vermine bee,<lb/> And, Cats the remedie; yet, oft wee see,<lb/> That, by the Mice, far lesse, some house-wives leese,<lb/> Then when they set the Catt to keepe the Cheese.<lb/> A ravenous Cat, will punish in the Mouse,<lb/> The very same Offences, in the house,<lb/> Which hee himselfe commits; yea, for that Vice,<lb/> Which was his owne (with praise) he kils the Mice ;<lb/> And, spoyleth not anothers life alone,<lb/> Ev'n for that very fault which was his owne,<lb/> But feeds, and fattens, in the spoyle of them,<lb/> Whom hee, without compassion did condemne.<lb/> Nay, worse than so; hee cannot bee content,<lb/> To slaughter them, who are as innocent,<lb/> As hee himselfe ; but, hee must also play,<lb/> And sport his wofull Pris'ners lives away;<lb/> More torturing them, 'twixt fruitlesse hopes and feares,<lb/> Than when their bowels, with his teeth he teares:<lb/> For, by much terrour, and much crueltie,<lb/> Hee kills them, ten times over, e're they die.<lb/> When, such like Magistrates have rule obtain'd,<lb/> The best men with their powre might be restrain'd:<lb/> But, they who shun enormities, through Feare,<lb/> Are glad when good-men out of Office are.<lb/> Yea, whether Governours bee good or bad,<lb/> Of their displacings wicked-men are glad;<lb/> And, when they see them brought into disgraces,<lb/> They boldly play the Knaves before their faces.<lb/> </p> |
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Mice encircle a cage with a cat |
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<p>CAPTIVUM IMPUNE LACESSUNT.</p> |
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GUL EMBLEMS ILL_BOOK |
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25F26(MOUSE)(+45) 25F26(MOUSE)(+51) 25F26(MOUSE)(+5222) 33B11(+0) 34B121(+0) 41A2 54D5 56D3 51AA4:57BB13 86(CAPTIVUM IMPUNE LACESSUNT) |
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<p>When Magistrates confined are,<lb/> They revell, who were kept in feare.</p> |
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embstma_1903_emblem157 |
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Captivum impune lacessunt |