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"A strangely inconsistent crew! " -- / Said the Viper to the simple Leech, -- / "Men fly from me and seek for you; / Although they get a bite from each."
"All very true," -- the Leech replied, -- / "But the two things are different quite.
I bite the sick, to give them aid; / To kill the sound and well, you bite."
Now, gentle reader, with you take / This counsel, as we part: / And always due distinction make, / If from the lash you smart.
Great is the difference between / Correction kind and malice keen.