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SACRED EPIGRAM: TO HEROD SLAYING ST. JAMES, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: You do not know how much james owes you for this blow
Last Line: What could fully pay for a cutt-off head %was only this crown so savage and sacred
Subject(s): Herod Agrippa I (10 B.c.-44. A.d.); James The Greater, Saint (c. 44 A.d.)




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