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The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell
(Strange Mansion!) in the bottom of a well:
Questions are then the Windlass and the rope
That pull the grave old Gentlewoman up.

— John Wolcot

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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.

People may have too much of a good thing:
Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

A fellow in a market town,
Most musical, cried razors up and down.

I think this piece will help to boil thy pot.

The bard complimenteth Mr. West on his Lord Nelson (1790)

What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

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