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I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under 
his tongue;
 Though he spare it, read more 
 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under 
his tongue;
 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within 
his mouth:
  Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps 
within him. 
 Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out 
his master's undoing.  
 Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out 
his master's undoing. 
 You play the spaniel,
 And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.  
 You play the spaniel,
 And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. 
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which 
I have made touching the king: read more 
 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which 
I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready 
writer. 
 The language I have learnt these forty years,
 My native English, now I must forgo;
  And now read more 
 The language I have learnt these forty years,
 My native English, now I must forgo;
  And now my tongue's use is to me no more
   Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
    Or like a cunning instrument cased up
     Or, being open, put into his hands
      That knows no touch to tune the harmony. 
 The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
 [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]  
 The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
 [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.] 
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.