ILL GOVERNMENT.
by Robert Herrick


PREPOSTEROUS is that government, and rude,
When kings obey the wilder multitude.



Preposterous, lit. hind-part before.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 246.


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