Quote #9

This indigested vomit of the Sea, Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

More from Andrew Marvell

  1. To make a bank was a great plot of state; Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
  2. The inglorious arts of peace.
  3. No creature loves an empty space; Their bodies measure out their place.
  4. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try.
  5. The world in all doth but two nations bear - The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
  6. But bowed his comely head Down as upon a bed.
  7. While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and…
  8. So much one man can do, That does both act and know.

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