XXX.

A sudden stiff land-wind in that self hour

To sea-ward forced this bird that did devour

The fish; he cares not, for with ease he flies,

Fat gluttony's best orator: at last,

So long he hath flown, and hath flown so fast,

That, leagues o'erpast at sea, now tired he lies,

And with his prey, that till then languished, dies:

The souls, no longer foes, two ways did err.

The fish I follow, and keep no calender

Of the other: he lives yet in some great officer.

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