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You will not be a chip the richer.
You will not be a chip the richer.
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little read more
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
and thy want as an armed man.
Worship and birth to me are known
By look, by bearing, and by tone,
Not by furred read more
Worship and birth to me are known
By look, by bearing, and by tone,
Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen
inches.
His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen
inches.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
