Still we of Swallow as a monster speak,
A hard, bad man, who prey'd upon the weak.
FOOTNOTES:
[50] The account of Coddrington [Collingbourne] occurs in "The Mirrour for Magistrates"; he suffered in the reign of Richard III.
LETTER VII.
[Jam mala finissem letho; sed credula vitam
Spes fovet, et fore cras semper ait melius.]
Tibullus [Lib. II. vi. vv. 19-20].
He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat——