PITY TO THE PROSTRATE.
by Robert Herrick


'TIS worse than barbarous cruelty to show
No part of pity on a conquered foe.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 251.



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