weigh quotes

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- Stephen Hales
Canadian lawyer and satirist. In1835 he began a series of satiric sketches  later  enlarged  as The Clockmaker;  or The Sayings  and Doings of Samuel Slick (1836). The OldJudge;  or Life in a Colony (1849) combines social history and satire.

Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair, And dream about the great and their pride; They have spoken against you everywhere, But weigh this song with the great and their pride; I made it out of a mouthful of air, Their children's children shall say they have lied.

-W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
  'HeThinks ofThose who have Spoken Evil of His Beloved', complete poem. Collected in TheWind Among the Reeds (1899).