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Not caring, so that sumpter-horse the back
Be hung with gaudy trappings, with what coarse,
Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.

— Thomas Dekker

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Notes from Wikiquote

Quoted by James Russell Lowell in Fireside Travels (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864), p. 6.

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