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Stanza 9 28

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He sees that men, to poverty who owe duty of Holy Love and Charity, live only pow’er to gain and wealth to show, pretending Justice and Integrity:

Of ugly Tyr’anny breeding asp’erous woe they coin a right with vain severity:

  • Laws they devise in favour of the King;
  • Laws which the lieges favour down they fling,
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