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than naked truths : and therefore he is very- 

 studious to glaze and polish his impostures,* 

 that so they may to a loose eye dissemble 

 truth, according to that of Pindar.t 



Glorious lies. 



Well marshal'd tales. 



Do still find favour : 

 Truth all forlorn 

 Intreats and wooes. 



But none will have her. 



But that of Menander : 



Let but the vulgar judge 



(The Poet knew) 

 They'd take the probable 



And leave the true.J 



Sixthly. When he hath, by the assistance of 

 the people, got the sword into his own hands, he 

 awes them with it, and frights them into future 

 compliance. He that courted them before with 

 all the adulatory terms that ambition could in- 

 vent, or they receive ; as if he had been vowed 



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