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 Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves 
quails, but he has not so much brain as read more 
 Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves 
quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly 
transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the 
primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty 
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what 
form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice 
forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both 
ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To 
be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a 
puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be 
Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny. 
 The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
 Only the empty nests are left behind,
  And pipings read more 
 The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
 Only the empty nests are left behind,
  And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.