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FOOLS.
Avoid a Fool—like Samson, in one thing,(Though Samson used a borrowed implement,
The fool his own, yet full equivalent),
He'll slay thee with (what alway he doth bring)
The jaw-bone of an ass! Short reckoning
Keep here; brief speech, less act; no argument;
For 'tis like on “fool's-errand” being sent;
Their folly to thy sense, like burr, will cling,
Ill to shake off. Some are fools simple, “pure,”
True correlate to knave, echo to sound.
Some, could they, would be knaves, 'twixt “done” and doer
Small choice, save that the one “done” still is found.
As Nature preys on Self by force or lure,
So knaves (on fools) keep folly within bound!
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