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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 551 — How King Pinnar was slain in battayle by Mulmucius Donwallo, about the yeare before Christ, 441.[546]

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Of this now spoken, this would I inferre, Men may by might a kingdome long withhold Not due to them: but they far better were To yeeld vnto the right, what reason would. Good mettals bides the touch, which tries the gold, When copper counted counterfeit in cast, Is deem’d but drosse and called in at last. N.

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