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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421830" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>from Colin Clout</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What can it avail<br>To drive forth a snail,<br>Or to make a sail<br>Of an herring’s tail;<br>To rhyme or to rail,<br>To write or to indict,<br>Either for delight<br>Or else for despight;<br>Or books to compile<br>Of divers manner of style,<br>Vice to revile<br>And sin to exile;<br>To teach or to preach,<br>As reason will reach?<br>Say this, and say that,<br>His head is so fat,<br>He wotteth never what<br>Nor whereof he speaketh;<br>He crieth and he creaketh,<br>He prieth and he peeketh,<br>He chides and he chatters,<br>He prates and he patters, <br>He clitters and he clatters,<br>He meddles and he smatters,<br>He gloses and he flatters;<br>Or if he speak plain,<br>Then he lacketh brain,<br>He is but a fool;<br>Let him go to school,<br>On a three footed stool<br>That he may down sit,<br>For he lacketh wit;<br>And if that he hit<br>The nail on the head,<br>It standeth in no stead;<br>The devil, they say, is dead,<br>The devil is dead.<br> It may well so be,<br>Or else they would see<br>Otherwise, and flee<br>From worldly vanity,<br>And foul covetousness,<br>And other wretchedness,<br>Fickle falseness,<br>Variableness,<br>With unstableness.<br> And if ye stand in doubt<br>Who brought this rhyme about,<br>My name is Colin Clout.<br>I purpose to shake out<br>All my connying bag,<br>Like a clerkly hag;<br>For though my rhyme be ragged,<br>Tattered and jagged,<br>Rudely rain beaten,<br>Rusty and moth eaten,<br>If ye take well therewith,<br>It hath in it some pith.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Skelton">John Skelton</a><div class=q>
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To drive forth a snail,
Or to make a sail
Of an herring’s tail;
To rhyme or to rail,
To write or to indict,
Either for delight
Or else for despight;
Or books to compile
Of divers manner of style,
Vice to revile
And sin to exile..."></div>
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