Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,

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With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

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And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature, and their stars, to write.

Quoth Hudibras, " I smell a rat ;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."

*

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Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.

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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.

Thou hast

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Outrun the Constable at last.

Some force whole regions, in despite

O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think's sufficient at one time.

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Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers

Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

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For what is worth in anything,

But so much money as 't will bring.

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Love is a boy by poets styled ;

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.*

The sun had long since in the lap

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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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*He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

Proverbs, ch. xiii. 24.

He that imposes an oath makes it,

Not he that for convenience takes it.

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As the Ancients

Say wisely, Have a care o' th' main chance,*
And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow, y' are like to reap.+

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 shine at full or no.

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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 honour's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged,
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.

As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.

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Still amorous and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

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* Be careful still of the main chance.-DRYDEN. Persius. Satire vi. + Cf. Proverbs, page 389. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.-Galatians, ch. vi. 7.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.

And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? Two hundred more.

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'Cause Grace and Virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin ;
And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffered to espouse.

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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,

Though he gave his name to our old Nick.

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True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shined upon.

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For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.*

Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain;

Fought all his battles o'er again;

And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew

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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

He raised a mortal to the skies,
She drew an angel down.

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