Renunciation

By EleCivil

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1. If all that’s said is only truth,
2. How nobler named than Liar be?
3. If every act heroic called,
4. What better cause than villainy?
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6. Pray, come name me Charlatan!
7. …If such a name be needed
8. For better named untruthful than
9. Memorized, repeated.
10.  
11. May every word to leave these lips
12. Leave little but impressions
13. That every saunt’ring syllable
14. Led only low intentions.
15.  
16. Let all words spoken honestly
17. Lie caught between the teeth
18. And so be heard not publicly
19. Lest named, thus bound, to be.