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What is well done is done soon enough.

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And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

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Night’s black mantle covers all alike. 1

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Hot and cold, and moist and dry. 2

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Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),
Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;
Who loving novels, full of affectation,
Receive the manners of each other nation. 3

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With tooth and nail.

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From the foure corners of the worlde doe haste. 4

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Oft seen in forehead of the frowning skies. 5

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From north to south, from east to west. 6

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Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion. 7

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Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant. 8

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’T is what you will,—or will be what you would.

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Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils. 9

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Note 1.
Come civil night,… with thy black mantle.—William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2. [back]

Note 2.
See Milton, Quotation 71. [back]

Note 3.
Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
William Shakespeare: Richard II. act ii. sc. 1. [back]

Note 4.
See Shakespeare, King John, Quotation 32. [back]

Note 5.
See Milton, Quotation 283. [back]

Note 6.
From north to south, from east to west.—William Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, act i. sc. 2. [back]

Note 7.
Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise, 1863).—John Tyndall. [back]

Note 8.
See Marlowe, Quotation 4. [back]

Note 9.
The cattle upon a thousand hills.—Psalm i. 10. [back]

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