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...deport themselves with seriousness and gravity, and to leave off giddy folly and frivolity : — KINCt. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers: How ill white hairs become a fool and jester 1 I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane ; But, being...

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...than before ? Let the Age and Body of the Time take heed of the King's rebuke of poor Sir John: " - -Fall to thy prayers; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!" Indeed, there is no pleasanter piece of self-delusion than this of thinking themselves natural, with...

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...the venerable Chief Justice on the other, Henry the Fifth speaks his closing speech, that begins, " I know thee not, old man ; fall to thy prayers ; How ill white hairs become a fool and jester ! " There is a particular contrast between the unhonoured poverty of wit and soul in the old Shallow...