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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 518 — How King Iago dyed of the Lethargy, about the yeare before Christ, 612.[516]

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A sleepie sicknesse, nam’d the Lethargie, Opprest me sore till death tooke life away: This was the guerdon of my gluttonie, As with the candles light the flie doth play, Though in the ende it worke her liues decay: So of the gluttons cup so long I drunke, Till drown’d in it with shamefull death I sunke. N.

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