"There’s an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There’s Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep’st thy crown, Th’usurper Death will make thee lay it down."
Thomas Flatman

January 1, 1970

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"The Defiance", in Poems (1686)

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