“Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear
(The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves)
With sensitive heads alert of ear;
Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.”
"The Gazelles", line 13; from The Centaur's Booty (London: Duckworth, 1903) p. ix.
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Canto III, line 391
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
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