Chapter 47
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Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.
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And bid the devil take the hin'most, Which at this race is like to win most.
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With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.
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Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron.
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Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
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H' had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
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I am not now in fortune's power; He that is down can fall no lower.
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Thou hast Outrun the Constable at last.
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For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time.
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For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring.
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The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn.
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Have always been at daggers-drawing.
And one another clapper-clawing.
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And look before you ere you leap; For as you sow, y' are like to reap.
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat.
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He made an instrument to know If the moon s.h.i.+ne at full or no....
And prove that she's not made of green cheese.[6]
[Note 6: "The moon is made of a green cheese"
_Jack Jugler_, p. 46.]
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You have a wrong sow by the ear.
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To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched.
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As quick as lightning, in the breach Just in the place where honor 's lodged, As wise philosophers have judged, Because a kick in that place more Hurts honor than deep wounds before,
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As he that has two strings t' his bow.