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Noscent, et qui sis fama loquetur anus.

LXXVII.

To Rufus, the Traitor Friend.

Rufus, trusted as friend by me, so fruitlessly, vainly,

(Vainly? nay to my bane and at a ruinous price!)

Hast thou cajoled me thus, and enfiring innermost vitals,

Ravished the whole of our good own'd by wretchedest me?

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Ravished; (alas and alas!) of our life thou cruellest cruel