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I’m Paddy Whack

Ned Stokes

Board-of-Green-Cloth

Pigeon-English

A neddy of fruit

Nine Shillings

Sharp’s-alley blood-worms

Enough said

Pickaninny

Organ-grinder

“to come to loggerheads”

Pretty horsebreakers

Je suis parti là-bas, on m’a dit “fais pas ci”

Je suis revenu ici, on m’a dit “fais pas ça”

Les choses changent peu, j’crois que c’est comme ça

Je suis allé voir autre part et ça canne aussi

Les zins cannent et on dit “OK”

On lit plus de livres, on lit des karaokés

J’la fais danser comme le disc-jockey

Elle est accro au zin comme si elle est cokée

Je suis parti là-bas, on m’a dit “fais pas ci”

Je suis revenu ici, on m’a dit “fais pas ça”

Les choses changent peu, j’crois que c’est comme ça

Je suis allé voir autre part et ça canne aussi

If thou shalt find anything in this mortal life better than righteousness, than truth, temperance, fortitude, and in general better than a mind contented both with those things which according to right and reason she doth, and in those, which without her will and knowledge happen unto thee by the providence; if I say, thou canst find out anything better than this, apply thyself unto it with thy whole heart, and that which is best wheresoever thou dost find it, enjoy freely. But if nothing thou shalt find worthy to be preferred to that spirit which is within thee; if nothing better than to subject unto thee thine own lusts and desires, and not to give way to any fancies or imaginations before thou hast duly considered of them, nothing better than to withdraw thyself (to use Socrates his words) from all sensuality, and submit thyself unto the gods, and to have care of all men in general: if thou shalt find that all other things in comparison of this, are but vile, and of little moment; then give not way to any other thing, which being once though but affected and inclined unto, it will no more be in thy power without all distraction as thou oughtest to prefer and to pursue after that good, which is thine own and thy proper good.

For it is not lawful, that anything that is of another and inferior kind and nature, be it what it will, as either popular applause, or honour, or riches, or pleasures;

For all these things, if once though but for a while, they begin to please, they presently prevail, and pervert a man’s mind, or turn a man from the right way.

Do thou therefore I say absolutely and freely make choice of that which is best, and stick unto it. Now, that they say is best, which is most profitable. If they mean profitable to man as he is a rational man, stand thou to it, and maintain it; but if they mean profitable, as he is a creature, only reject it; and from this thy tenet and conclusion keep off carefully all plausible shows and colours of external appearance, that thou mayest be able to discern things rightly.

And what is it then that shall always be remembered?