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Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? -- George Withers.
It was a great pity, so it was, That villanous saltpetre should be digged Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroyed. -- First Part of King Henry IV.