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I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
I should think your tongue has broken its chain.
So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication read more
So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.
Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, read more
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue;
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within
his mouth:
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps
within him.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of
things in the sea, is tamed, read more
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of
things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of
deadly poison.
Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
That runs for ages without winding up?
Is there a tongue like Delia's o'er her cup,
That runs for ages without winding up?