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Crewe MS/36/pp. 28–37
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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.
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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.