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By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...rst that ir is de bonne foy, then more than that, c'est moy: how worthily qualified, embellished, furnished it is, let his faire-spoken, and fine-wi... ... may be proud That he is theirs, though he he be every where To have the franchise of his worth allow'd. It being the portion of a happie Pen, ... ... all their nimblenesse, teach any man to doe their loftie tricks and high capers, only with seeing them done, and without stirring out of his place,... ...Tempora sanctonico velas adoperta cucullo. Juven. Sat. viii. 144. If in a cape-cloake-hood befrenchifide Thou a night-whore-munger thy head dost hid... ...encæ Ferre patrem tergo: tua filia coniux: Quasque creavit, init pecudes caper: ipsaque cuius Semine concepta est, ex illo conecepit ales -- OVID. ... ...xample of both them above all example, and your noble husband excellently qualified, exquisitely languaged, and your as learned as well graced broth...

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