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That on my head all might be vifited. 

 Thy frailty and infirmer fex forgiven, 

 By me committed, and by me expos'd. 



MILTON. 



Remember March ! the ides of March remember ! 

 Did not great Julius bleed for juftice' fake ? 

 What villain touch' d his body, that did flab, 

 And not for juftice ? What ! fhall one of us, 

 That ft ruck the foremoft man in all the world 

 But for fupporting robbers, fhall we now 

 Contaminate our fingers with bafe bribes, 

 And fell the mighty fpace of our large honors 

 For as much tram as may be grafped thus ? 

 I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 



Than fuch a Roman. 



JULIUS CJESAR. 



Plac'd on this ifthmus of a middle ftate, 

 A Being darkly wife and rudely great j 

 With too much knowledge for the Sceptic fide, 

 With too much weaknefs for the Stoic's pride, 

 He hangs between, in doubt to act or reft, 

 In doubt to deem himfelf a god or beaft 5 

 In doubt his mind or body to prefer, 

 Born but to die, and reafoning but to err ; 

 Sole judge of truth, in endlefs error hurl'd, 

 The glory,, jeft, and riddle of the world. 



POPS, on the Conftru&ion of Man, 



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