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    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.

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In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.

In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.

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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.

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