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Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails; I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whichever side prevails.

I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down, A Cloak and Band I then put on, And preached against the Crown.

Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to.

Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!

And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.

For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.

He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.

A grisly meteor on his face.

This hairy meteor did announce The fall of sceptres and of crowns.

Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.

Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take th' alarm, You bus'ness is but to inform; But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near, You have a wrong sow by the ear.

Shear swine, all cry and no wool.

You have a wrong sow by the ear.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.

With vollies of eternal babble.

And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.

For trouts are tickled best in muddy water.