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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2763197The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
The Hand and Tongue
1898Alfred Pollard

339. THE HAND AND TONGUE.

Two parts of us successively command:
The tongue in peace; but then in war the hand.