“2057. Drive away and never endure Tale-bearers : Whoever entertains thee with the Faults of others, designs to serve thee in the same Kind.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
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Context: True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee;
We and our sisters, dwellers in the streams
That murmur blithely to the joyous mood,
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In darkest woods but some of us are there,
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Act I, sc. i.
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I know my magic power
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