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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: "When Priests Are More in World..."
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"When Priests Are More in World..."
(From "King Lear")When priests are more in world than matter; When brewers mar their malt with water; When nobles are their tailors’ tutors; Nor heretics burn’d, but wenches’ suitors; When every case in law is right; No squire in debt, nor no poor knight; When slanders do not live in tongues, Nor cutpurses come not to throngs; When usurers tell their gold i’ the field, And bawds and whores do churches built; Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion: Then comes the time, who live to see’t, That going shall be used by feet.
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