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On Sir John Roe

XXXII. ? ON SIR JOHN ROE. (II)     What two brave perils of the private sword      Could not effect, nor all the Furies do, That self-divided Belgia did afford ;      What not the envy of the seas reach'd to, The cold of Mosco, and fat Irish air,      His often change of clime, though not of mind, What could not work ; at home, in his repair      Was his blest fate, but our hard lot to find. Which shews, wherever death doth please t'appear,      Seas, sérenes, swords, shot, sickness, all are there.






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