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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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Tox. Shotinge streyght and kepynge of a lengthe.

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Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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hil. Howe shoulde a manne shoote strayght, and howeshulde a man kepe a length? Tox. In knowynge and havynge thinges belongynge toshootyng: and whan they be knowen and had, in well hand-lynge of them : whereof some belong to shotjmg strayght,some to keping of a length, some commonly to them bothe,as shall be tolde severally of them, in place convenient. Phi. Thjmges belongjmg to shotjmg, whyche be they? Tox. All thinges be outwarde, and some be instrumentesfor every archer to brynge with him, proper for his owneuse: other thynges be generall to every man, as the placeand tjrme serveth.
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