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...nd to parry the adversary. 

Let Ahitub humble himself with an Ape before Almighty God, who is the maker of variety and pleasantry. 

Let Abiathar with a Fox praise the name of the Lord, who ballances craft against strength and skill against number. 

Let Moses, the Man of God, bless with a Lizard, in the sweet majesty of good-nature, and the magnanimity of meekness. 

Let Joshua praise God with an Unicorn -- the swiftness of the Lord, and the strength of the Lord, and the sp...Read more of this...

...Vultur who is strength and fierceness. 

Let Shobab rejoice with Evech who is of the goat kind which is meditation and pleasantry. 

Let Ittai the Gittite rejoice with the Gerfalcon amicus certus in re incertâ cernitur. 

Let Ibhar rejoice with the Pochard -- a child born in prosperity is the chiefest blessing of peace. 

Let Elishua rejoice with Cantharis -- God send bread and milk to the children. 

Let Chimham bless with Drepanis who is a passenger from the sea to heaven....Read more of this...

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For there be three to the North -- Meditation, Happiness, Strength. 

For there be three to the South -- Constancy, Pleasantry and Wisdom. 

For the Argument A PRIORI is GOD in every man's CONSCIENCE. 

For the Argument A POSTERIORI is God before every man's eyes. 

For the Four and Twenty Elders of the Revelation are Four and Twenty Eternities. 

For their Four and Twenty Crowns are their respective Consummations. 

For a CHARACTER is the votes of the Worldlings, but the...Read more of this...

...and spirit of a CAT is in the Greek. 

For the sound of a cat is in the most useful preposition êáô' åõ÷çí . 

For the pleasantry of a cat at pranks is in the language ten thousand times over. 

For JACK UPON PRANCK is in the performance of gåñé together or seperate. 

For Clapperclaw is in the grappling of the words upon one another in all the modes of versification. 

For the sleekness of a Cat is in his áãëáéçöé . 

For the Greek is thrown from heaven and falls upon its f...Read more of this...

...be regarded
as a distinct autobiographical tale, Tyrwhitt says: "The
extraordinary length of it, as well as the vein of pleasantry that
runs through it, is very suitable to the character of the speaker.
The greatest part must have been of Chaucer's own invention,
though one may plainly see that he had been reading the popular
invectives against marriage and women in general; such as the
'Roman de la Rose,' 'Valerius ad Rufinum, De non Ducenda
Uxore,' ('Valerius to Rufinus, on...Read more of this...

...ith the sad seared face, 
 I weary of seeing thee, 
And thy draggled cloak, and thy hobbling pace, 
 And thy too-forced pleasantry! 

 I know what thou would'st tell 
 Of Death, Time, Destiny - 
I have known it long, and know, too, well 
 What it all means for me. 

 But canst thou not array 
 Thyself in rare disguise, 
And feign like truth, for one mad day, 
 That Earth is Paradise? 

 I'll tune me to the mood, 
 And mumm with thee till eve; 
And maybe what as interlude 
 I ...Read more of this...

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