The FOOL.
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He goeth after her as an Ox goeth to the Slaughter, or as a Fool to the Correction of the Stocks.
Proverbs vii. 22.
No Life so sweet as to be mad, And no one Thing to know; But this is far remov’d from best, As Mad-men’s Actions shew. Secure of Fate the witless Fool Like sportive Lambkins treads, And knows not that his ev’ry Step To Death’s sad Portals leads.