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AS a west-country mayor, with formal address,
Was making his speech to the haughty Queen Bess,
The Spaniard, quoth he, with inveterate spleen,
Has presumed to attack you, a poor virgin queen,
But your majesty's courage soon made it appear
That his Donship had ta'en the wrong sow by the ear.
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