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By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...n bickering of warr e have been throughly skared, fore-hurt, wounded, and gored as they be, are many times the next day after brought to charge agai... ...e bounds of the hereditarie and injurious demeanours the children of that family were wont to shew their fathers. 'By custome,' saith Aristotle, 'as... ... for or pleasant voyage soever he undertake, but that taking leave of his family and friends, he shall feele a chilling and panting of the heart, an... ...ged them. There is not much lesse vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state: wheresoever the minde is bu... ...their fathers, and that hath not been engraffed into some noble stocke or family. And as good lucke serveth, the basest upstart and most obscure hou... ...rpose by compulsion: by whose earnest speeches, resolute countenance, and gored bloud (a true testimony of her chaste vertue) she might appeare to b... ...ry doth the Crocodile adore, That feares the Storks glutted with Serpents gore, The sacred Babion here, In gold shape doth appeare. -----hic pisc... ...on damnifide A Lions life? in what wood ever di'de, A boare by tusks and gore, Of any greater boare? Yet are not they altogether exempted from ... ...ave represented him in his proudest state, it should have beene all bloody-gored, tearing his entraile, and rending his gutts, rather then with a swo...

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