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'Tis not amiss, ere ye're giv'n o'er,
To try one desp'rate med'cine more;
For where your case can be no worse,
The desp'rat'st is the wisest course.

— Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

Part III (1678)

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

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