Heere am I (quoth The Flea) and shew’d himselfe.
—Peter Woodhouse, The Contention betweene
the Elephant & the Flea (1605)
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THE FLEA was selected for preservation
by the National Library of Australia
Nor shall death brag thou wandr’st in his shade,
When in eternall FLEAS to time thou grow’st
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