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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius

Note 1469 — PERSIUS.

Lewis Evans translation

Funemque reduco. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. sc. 1.

"I would have thee gone, And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again."

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