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 Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune 
changes not birth.  
 Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune 
changes not birth. 
 My sister and my sister's child,
 Myself and children three,
  Will fill the chaise: so you must read more 
 My sister and my sister's child,
 Myself and children three,
  Will fill the chaise: so you must ride
   On horseback after me. 
 Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the 
attempt.  
 Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the 
attempt. 
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
 But we are all men
 In our own natures frail.  
 But we are all men
 In our own natures frail. 
 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, 
or as a fool to the correction read more 
 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, 
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the 
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. 
 States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall 
bodies.  
 States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall 
bodies. 
 Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily 
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely 
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 Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily 
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely 
circulated.