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"If .*. the fourteenth hearbe, smallage, be bounden to 

 an oxe's necke, he will follow thee whithersoever thou 

 wilt go." The last instructions lead one to agree with 

 the poet : 



" I would that I had flourished then, 



When ruffs and raids were in the fashion," 



and when views of mine and thine were less rigid than 

 they are to-day. 



