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Give the man who is not made To his trade Swords to fling and catch again, Coins to ring and snatch again, Men to harm and cure again, Snakes to charm and lure again - He'll be hurt by his own blade, By his serpents disobeyed, By his clumsiness bewrayed,' By the people mocked to scorn - So 'tis not with juggler born!
I spied comming downe the Meade, two ancient men, aged for their foreheads were the Calenders of their yeares and the whitenesse of their haires bewrayed the number of their dayes their pace was answerable to their age, and In diebus illis [in those days], hung vpon their garments: their visages were wrinckled, but well featured, and their countenance conteyned much grauitie ([B4.sup.v]-[C1.sup.r]).
So that had not thy untimely folly bewrayed itself, it may be that the syllogisms whereby our father hath cracked the crown of Canterbury should have had no other answer, or he himself none other punishment but this." The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior, Tract 6, in Black, ed.
than that in truth they feel those passions, which as easily (I think) may be bewrayed by that same forcibleness or energia (as the Greeks call it) of the writer.
And therein, although the wiser sort would turne ouer the leafe as a thing altogether fruitlesse yet I my selfe haue reaped this commoditie, to sit and smile at the fond deuices of such as haue enchained them selues in the golden fetters of fantasie, and hauing bewrayed themselues to the whole world, do yet coniecture yt they walke vnseene in a net.