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Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay read more
Mere verbiage,--it is not worth a carrot!
Why Socrates or Plato--where's the odds?--
Once taught a jay to supplicate the Gods,
And made a Polly-theist of a Parrot!
He that hath the spice, may season as he list.
He that hath the spice, may season as he list.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
No choice amongst stinking fish.
No choice amongst stinking fish.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle
and the distaffe.
Night is the mother of Councels.
Night is the mother of Councels.
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
