"This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying, Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use."
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Henry Porter, The Proverb Monger, from Two Angry Women of Abindon.
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