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  • Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in And they that are within would fain go out.

    - SirJohn Davies
      'A Contention Betwixt a Wife, a Widow, and a Maid for Precedence', l.193^6.

  • Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.

    - George Herbert
    'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

  • The people die so, that now it seems theyare fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.

    - Samuel Pepys
      Diary entry,12 Aug.

  • Down for a new radio, to Ross Lake, and back up. Three days walking. Strange how unmoved this place leaves one; neither articulate or worshipful; rather the pressing need to look within and adjust the mechanism of perception.

    - Gary Sherman Snyder
      Earth House Hold,'Lookout's Journal, Crater Shan 28 July'.

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