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There's reason good, that you good laws should make:
Men's manners ne'er were viler, for your sake.

— Ben Jonson The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616)

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Source: XXIV, To The Parliament, lines 1-2
Work: The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio, 1616
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