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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Treason

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118946The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides, TreasonAlfred PollardRobert Herrick (1591-1674)

17. TREASON.

The seeds of treason choke up as they spring:
He acts the crime that gives it cherishing.