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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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One who, or that which, accelerates.

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526. O god, that at thy disposicioun

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Geoffrey Chaucer·1343–1400
66-7. And that a cloud is put with wind to flighteWhich over-sprat the sonne as for a space.B. i. met. 3. 8-10. TROILUS: BOOK III. 617.[37] But O, Fortune, executrice of wierdes,O influences of thise hevenes hye!Soth is, that, under god, ye ben our hierdes.B. iv. pr. 6. 60-71.