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A DRAGON lo, a Scepter grasping fas
Within his paw: doth shew a King should b
Like AEsculapius, ev'er watchfull plac't
Among his subiects, and with skill to see
To what ill humors, of th'infectious mind
The multitude, are most of inclind
And when he findes corruption to abound
In that Huge body, of all vices ill
To purge betimes, or else to * launch the wound
Least more, and more, it ranckles inward still
Or when he would, it bring to former state
Past all recure, his phisick comes to late.