“Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?”
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“With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.”
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“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”
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“For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.”
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“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
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“Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.”
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“Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.”
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“Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.”
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“Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
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“For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
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“There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.”
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Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4
“He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.”
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