![]() ![]() So may you blame some fair and crystal riverįor that some melancholic, distracted man Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?. ![]() ![]() Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,- Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc. ![]() 'T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,-the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.Academiarum Examen, or the Examination of Academies (1654), p.O that the Schools therefore would leave their idle, and fruitless speculations, and not be too proud to put their hands to the coals and furnace, where they might find ocular experiments to confute their fopperies, and produce effects that would be beneficial to all posterities. I dare truly and boldly say, that one years exercise therein to ingenious spirits, under able Masters, will produce more real and true fruit, than the studying Aristotelian Philosophy hath brought forth in many centuries.Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ![]()
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