“Some things are of that nature as to make
One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.”
John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Part II
“If I a fancy take
To black and blue,
That fancy doth it beauty make.”
Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white.
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