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The rat is the concisest tenant.
He pays no rent, -- / Repudiates the obligation, / On schemes intent.
Balking our wit / To sound or circumvent, / Hate cannot harm / A foe so reticent.
Neither decree / Prohibits him, / Lawful as / Equilibrium.