SUPREME FORTUNE FALLS SOONEST.
by Robert Herrick


WHILE leanest beasts in pastures feed,
The fattest ox the first must bleed.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 93.


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