History & Politics
Of Soothsaying, to the Queene of England
From The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams (1618), Book 1
History & Politics
MIght Queenes shun future mischiefe by foretelling,
Thē among Soothsayers 'twere excellent dwelling:
ut if there be no means, such harms expelling,
The knowledge makes the grief, the more excelling.
Well, yet deare Liege, my soule this comfort doth,
That of these Soothsayers very few say sooth.
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Codex Note
Book 1, Epigram 80
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