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The Life of the Weevil

Note 4 — Chapter xiii · THE HARICOT-WEEVIL

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‘Vile vetches would you sow, or lentils lean?

The growth of Egypt, or the kidney-bean?

Begin when the slow Waggoner descends,

Nor cease your sowing till mid-winter ends.’

—Dryden’s translation. ↑

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