<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419410" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Braggart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With careful step to keep his balance up<br>He reels on warily along the street,<br>Slabbering at mouth and with a staggering stoop<br>Mutters an angry look at all he meets.<br>Bumptious and vain and proud he shoulders up<br>And would be something if he knew but how;<br>To any man on earth he will not stoop<br>But cracks of work, of horses and of plough.<br>Proud of the foolish talk, the ale he quaffs,<br>He never heeds the insult loud that laughs:<br>With rosy maid he tries to joke and play,--<br>Who shrugs and nettles deep his pomp and pride.<br>And calls him 'drunken beast' and runs away--<br>King to himself and fool to all beside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Clare">John Clare</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419410" data-title="Braggart de John Clare" data-description="With careful step to keep his balance up He reels on warily along the street, Slabbering at mouth and with a staggering stoop Mutters an angry look at all he meets. Bumptious and vain and proud he shoulders up And would be something if he knew but..."></div> </div> </div>

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