Part pp. 28–37 - Verses (author unknown)

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Motto: ‘Quem Natura neget facit indignatio versum qualem cungi potest’ (adapted from Juvenal, Satires, i. 79–80 (‘cungi’ should read ‘cunque’)). First line: ‘I who from drinking nere cou’d spare an hour’. The poem refers to several events of 1682.

Printed in Poems on Affairs of State (1704), iii. 123–8, under the title ‘Satyr’, with the motto ‘Quem Natura negat dabit Indignatio Versum’. See ECS, p. 346.