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The Life of Zoilus.

vertheless meet a Proportion of it in the inward Trouble they give themselves, and the outward Contempt others fling upon them: A Punishment which every one has hitherto felt, who has really deserv'd to be call'd a Zoilus; and which will always be the natural Reward of such Mens Actions, as long as Zoilus is the proper Name of Envy.

 

End block from 'Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice' by Thomas Parnell published in 1717