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XXXV.

Two little fishes whom hee never harm'd, Nor fed on their kinde, two not throughly arm'd With hope that they could kill him, nor could doe Good to themselves by his death (they did not eate His flesh, nor suck those oyles, which thence outstreat) 345 Conspir'd against him, and it might undoe The plot or all, that the plotters were two, But that they fishes were, and could not speake. How shall a Tyran wife strong projects breake, If wreches can on them the common anger wreake? 350