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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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noun

One who, or that which, accelerates.

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Sir John Pettus. — A Pensioner.

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Andrew Marvell·1621–1678
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ir Allen Broderick. — Bribe-broker forhis master the Chancellor: Surveyor ofIreland. He got -g30,000, but in keep-ing whores has spent most again. 21 Sir John Duncombe. — A Privy-councillor ; once Commissioner of the Ordinance, now of the Treasury, and Bapt. May's brother-in-law.Sir Ed. Pooley. — Has had ^6,000 given him. A Commissioner in several things ; a pimp once to his own sister, who had a bastard.John Bence. — A crony of the Lord St.
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