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... The generous down , From age to age , by our renown'd forefathers ! plan of pow'r deliver'd 1 So dearly bought , the price of fo much blood ! O let it never perish in your hands , But piously tranfmit it to your children ! CASSIUS .
... The generous down , From age to age , by our renown'd forefathers ! plan of pow'r deliver'd 1 So dearly bought , the price of fo much blood ! O let it never perish in your hands , But piously tranfmit it to your children ! CASSIUS .
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