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A just man cannot fear, Not, though the malice of traducing tongues, The open vastness of a tyrant’s ear, The senseless rigour of the wrested laws, Or the red eyes of strain’d authority, Should, in a point meet all to take his life, His innocence is armour ’gainst all these.
A just man cannot fear, Not, though the malice of traducing tongues, The open vastness of a tyrant’s ear, The senseless rigour of the wrested laws, Or the red eyes of strain’d authority, Should, in a point meet all to take his life, His innocence is armour ’gainst all these.
Approximate author period: c. 1605 AD · renaissance
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- Ben Jonson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1605 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 339 · printed citation: Ben Jonson · subject: JUSTICE
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