Page:Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles.djvu/27

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AN OX.

I am as useful to the nation,
As some who move in higher station;
And fraught with virtues deem'd inherent,
May well be call'd the kings vicegerent;
As I his subjects render stronger,
And die that they may live the longer.