He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no. - Samuel Butler

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There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.

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Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?

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Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow;
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

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