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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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IN QUINTUM. IV.

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Christopher Marlowe·1564–1593·English Renaissance theatre
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uintus the dancer useth evermoreHis feet in measure and in rule to move:Yet on a time he call'd his mistress _whore_,And thought with that sweet word to win her love.O, had his tongue like to his feet been taught,It never would have utter'd such a thought! IN PLURIMOS. V.[465] Faustinus, Sextus, Cinna, Ponticus,With Gella, Lesbia, Thais, Rhodope,Rode all to Staines,[466] for no cause serious,But for their mirth and for their lechery.Scarce were they settled in their lodging, whenWenches with wenches, men with men fell out,Men with their wenches, wenches with their men;Which straight dissolves[467] this ill-assembled rout.But since the devil brought them thus together,To my discoursing thoughts it is a wonder, 10Why presently as soon as they came thither,The self-same devil did them part asunder.Doubtless, it seems, it was a foolish devil,That thus did part them ere they did some evil. FOOTNOTES: [465] MS. "In meritriculas Londinensis." [466] MS. "Ware." [467] MS. "dissolv'd"
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