Social Commentaries
In Romam
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 4
Social Commentaries
HAte, and debate, Rome through the world hath
Yet Roma Amor is, if backward read.
Then is't not strange Rome hate should foster? No: spread,
For out of backward loue, all hate doth grow.
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Codex Note
Book 4, Epigram 92
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