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Yielding more wholesome food than all the messes
That now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses. 1

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Turning our seed-wheat-kennel tares,
To burn-grain thistle, and to vaporie darnel,
Cockle, wild oats, rough burs, corn-cumbring
Tares. 2

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In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright. 3

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Dog, ounce, bear, and bull,
Wolfe, lion, horse. 4

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Apoplexie and lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

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Living from hand to mouth.

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In the jaws of death. 5

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Did thrust as now in others’ corn his sickle. 6

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Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls. 7

Second Week, Third Day, Part i.

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Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber. 8

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The will for deed I doe accept. 9

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Note 1.
See Milton, Quotation 291. [back]

Note 2.
Crown’d with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.
William Shakespeare: Lear, act iv. sc. 4. [back]

Note 3.
See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 22. [back]

Note 4.
Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.—William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act ii. sc. 1. [back]

Note 5.
See Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Quotation 38. [back]

Note 6.
See Publius Syrus, Quotation 61. [back]

Note 7.
See Milton, Quotation 125.

Orient pearls.—William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, act iv. sc. 1. [back]

Note 8.
See Burton, Quotation 24. [back]

Note 9.
See Swift, Quotation 40. [back]

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