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... IX . - Of Foolish Counsellors , Judges , and Men of Law · Of Foolish modern Wives and Fashion- ables - Of Fools who contemn and despise Reli- gion Of Foolish Gluttons and Drunkards 23 27 226 $ 1 34 Sec . X. love of Gold · XI . XII.
... IX . - Of Foolish Counsellors , Judges , and Men of Law · Of Foolish modern Wives and Fashion- ables - Of Fools who contemn and despise Reli- gion Of Foolish Gluttons and Drunkards 23 27 226 $ 1 34 Sec . X. love of Gold · XI . XII.
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... Gold · XI . XII . XIII . XIV . Of Young Fools who marry Old ones for Of Venal Fools Of Fools who Masquerade at Midnight Of Fools who seek Fortune at Games of Chance Of Foolish Priests , and babbling Parsons in the Choir Page . 40 44 48 ...
... Gold · XI . XII . XIII . XIV . Of Young Fools who marry Old ones for Of Venal Fools Of Fools who Masquerade at Midnight Of Fools who seek Fortune at Games of Chance Of Foolish Priests , and babbling Parsons in the Choir Page . 40 44 48 ...
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... Gold Of Venal Fools Of Fools who Masquerade at Midnight Of Fools who seek Fortune at Games of Of Foolish Priests , and babbling Parsons in the Choir Of Fools who practise vileness of Man- ners at Table Of Avaricious Fools Page . 40 44 ...
... Gold Of Venal Fools Of Fools who Masquerade at Midnight Of Fools who seek Fortune at Games of Of Foolish Priests , and babbling Parsons in the Choir Of Fools who practise vileness of Man- ners at Table Of Avaricious Fools Page . 40 44 ...
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... gold , by fell extortion got . Thy darling principle is self alone : The cries of injur'd , and the pris'ner's groan , Ne'er urge thee to commiserate their lot . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Mark o'er thine head now hangs the steady scale ...
... gold , by fell extortion got . Thy darling principle is self alone : The cries of injur'd , and the pris'ner's groan , Ne'er urge thee to commiserate their lot . L'ENVOY OF THE POET . Mark o'er thine head now hangs the steady scale ...
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... gold in a swine's snout , so is a fair wo- man which is without discretion . YE dames of title , by example led , SOLOMON . May safely wrong your senseless husband's bed ; Fearless of monitor or partial blame , Since mere publicity ...
... gold in a swine's snout , so is a fair wo- man which is without discretion . YE dames of title , by example led , SOLOMON . May safely wrong your senseless husband's bed ; Fearless of monitor or partial blame , Since mere publicity ...
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Alexander Barclay attainment bard boast brain certainly CHORUS TO FOOLS class of fools common sense conceive Crowds flock curious fool dames death disgrace display doth ev'ry exclaim eyes fam'd fame famous fandango dance favours fear feel fidatevi folly FOOLISH fortune frequently gentlemen give gold hath head hear Heaven HERE'S honour human ideot instance John Perrot joys justly King L'ENVOY labour lady lines live Lord mind nature naught ne'er never noble o'er pain passion pleasure POET POET'S CHORUS Pope Innocent IV possessed present propensity prove Rara Avis reason render score SECTION Semiramis senseless Shakspeare shame silly slave sloth SOLOMON speaking species Stultifera Navis thee thine thing thyself tion trim the boat truth usury vanity vice vile Voltaire votaries whip wife wisdom wise words wretch writer youth
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Page 2 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 115 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 223 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 146 - ... we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on : An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
Page 196 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? • no. Is it insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it: honour is a mere scutcheon: — and so ends my catechism.
Page 146 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 176 - Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind 'away: O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!— But soft!
Page 153 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 175 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus Comes at the last and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Page 87 - And styl'd of war, as well as peace. (So some rats, of amphibious nature, Are either for the land or water) : But here our authors make a doubt, Whether he were more wise or stout...