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Mincing poetry:'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag.

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity;And pity 'tis 'tis true.

This is the English, not the Turkish court;Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,But Harry Harry.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew,Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers.

But if it be a sin to covet honor,I am the most offending soul alive.

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Yesterday the bird of night did sit,Even at noonday, upon the marketplace,Hooting and shrieking.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.

This is very midsummer madness.

Hence, horrible shadow!Unreal mockery, hence!

By this leek, I will most horribly revenge. I eat and eat, I swear.

Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!

He is come to openThe purple testament of bleeding war.

But in the gross and scope of my opinion,This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

An honorable murderer, if you will;For nought I did in hate, but all in honor.

Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making?

An honour! were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat

I love a ballad in print, a-life, for then we are sure they are true.

For where is any author in the worldTeaches such beauty as a woman's eye?Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

Unkindness may do much;And his unkindness may defeat my life,But never taint my love.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.

For several virtuesHave I lik'd several women.

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st wordsThat ever blotted paper.