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'Tis bet|ter to / be vile | than vile | esteemed,
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When not | to be,| receives | reproach | of
being;
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And the / just pleas|ure lost,| which is | so
deemed
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Not by | our feel|ing, but | by oth|ers' seeing.
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For why | should oth|ers' false | adult|erate eyes
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Give^sal|uta|tion to | my sport|ive blood?
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Or on | my frail|ties why | are frail|er spies;
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Which^in | their wills | count* bad | what I |
think^good?
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No, I | am that | I am,| and they | that level
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At my | abus|es, reck|on up | their own,
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I may | be straight | though* they | themselves |
be bevel
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By their / rank thoughts,| my deeds | must not |
be shown
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Unless | this gene|ral ev|il they | maintain,
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All men | are bad | and in | their bad|ness
reign.