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Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.
Soft as some song divine, thy story flows.
But that's another story.
But that's another story.
 When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
 Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
  Pick out read more 
 When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
 Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
  Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. 
 For seldom shall she hear a tale
 So said, so tender, yet so true.  
 For seldom shall she hear a tale
 So said, so tender, yet so true. 
 A story, in which native humour reigns,
 Is often useful, always entertains;
  A graver fact, enlisted on read more 
 A story, in which native humour reigns,
 Is often useful, always entertains;
  A graver fact, enlisted on your side,
   May furnish illustration, well applied;
    But sedentary weavers of long tales
     Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails. 
 Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of 
yourself.
 [Lat., Quid rides?]
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 Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of 
yourself.
 [Lat., Quid rides?]
  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.] 
 His eye begets occasion for his wit;
 For every object that the one doth catch
  The other read more 
 His eye begets occasion for his wit;
 For every object that the one doth catch
  The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,
   Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,
    Delivers in such apt and gracious words,
     That aged ears play truant at his tales,
      And younger hearings are quite ravished,
       So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!