Note 1492 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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MS.:
What differs more, you cry, than gown and hood? A wise man and a fool, a bad and good.
The miserable rhyme in the text had the authority of a pun in Shakespeare, 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 6:
Why what a peevish fool was that of Crete That taught his son the office of a fowl? And yet, for all his wings, the fool was drowned.