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That all from Adam first begun, :None but ungodly Woolston doubts, And that his son, and his son's sons :Were all but ploughmen, clowns and louts. Each when his rustic pains began, :To merit pleaded equal right, 'Twas only who left off at noon, :Or who went on to work till night.
That all from Adam first begun, :None but ungodly Woolston doubts, And that his son, and his son's sons :Were all but ploughmen, clowns and louts. Each when his rustic pains began, :To merit pleaded equal right, 'Twas only who left off at noon, :Or who went on to work till night.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 25 · quotation 5 · Prior · The Old Gentry.
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