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"Much like a subtle spider which doth sit In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; If aught do touch the utmost thread of it, She feels it instantly on every side."
Sir John Davies / The Immortality of the Soul.

The Immortality of the Soul.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout,-- Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out."
Sir John Davies / Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.

Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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