"The way to resumption is to resume."

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"I 'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur."

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"Each window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears."

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"Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick."

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"And bid the devil take the hin'most."

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"For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope."

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

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

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"Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers."

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"Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow; Some kick'd until they can feel whether A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather."

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

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"Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child."

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"There 's but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war."

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"With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang."

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"But Hudibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech, Just in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour than deep wounds before."

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"Or shear swine, all cry and no wool."

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"To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd, And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd."

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"With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,-- The tools of working our salvation By mere mechanic operation."

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"Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more difficile Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle."

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"Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last."

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"'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse."

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"The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack."

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"'T was Presbyterian true blue."

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

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"Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing."

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"And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent."

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"No Indian prince has to his palace More followers than a thief to the gallows."

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"With mortal crisis doth portend My days to appropinque an end."

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"For truth is precious and divine,-- Too rich a pearl for carnal swine."

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"If he that in the field is slain Be in the bed of honour lain, He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed."

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"Who thought he 'd won The field as certain as a gun."

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"He had got a hurt O' the inside, of a deadlier sort."

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"Such as take lodgings in a head That 's to be let unfurnished."

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"The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn."

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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, ye are like to reap."

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"With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay."

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"When pious frauds and holy shifts Are dispensations and gifts."

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

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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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"We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it."

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"These reasons made his mouth to water."

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"While the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new."

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"He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still."

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"Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat."

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"Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore."

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"And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick."

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"For he by geometric scale Could take the size of pots of ale."

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"Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns."

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