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Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
 To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
 I must needs say comparisons are odd.  
 To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
 I must needs say comparisons are odd. 
 Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the 
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and read more 
 Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the 
comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty 
and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken? 
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]  
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] 
 Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou 
art any one of read more 
 Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou 
art any one of the multitude may be.
 [Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse:
  Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.] 
 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
 Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
  The east; 'tis time unfolds read more 
 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
 Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. 
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?
They say comparisons are odious. I say: compared to what?