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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl, The secret mischiefs that I set abroach, I lay unto the grievous charge of others. But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture Tell them—that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villany, With old, odd ends, stol’n forth of Holy Writ.
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl, The secret mischiefs that I set abroach, I lay unto the grievous charge of others. But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture Tell them—that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villany, With old, odd ends, stol’n forth of Holy Writ.
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