Volume 1 — From Chambers's Journal. SPEECH.
Reading edition
Be choice and frugal of thy speech alway: The arrow from the engine of the thoughts Once shot, is past recall; for scorn is barbed, And will not out, but rankles in the wound; And calumny doth leave a darkening spot On wounded fame, which, as it would infect, Marks its sad victim in the eyes of men, Till no one dare approach and know the truth.
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