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1 Praise| purpose. And if they want hard words, they run over some worm-eaten 2 Praise| contest is only with empty words?~And next to these is cried 3 Praise| nothing but subtleties of words. The fool, in undertaking 4 Praise| bald; or rather, to use the words of Aristophanes, “Nasty, 5 Praise| about the double-meaning words? What need of rhetoric, 6 Praise| thought no men of their words. Again what is it, I pray, 7 Praise| that are more taken with words than things. They think 8 Praise| every page have three hard words read, but chiefly exotic 9 Praise| what are they but mere words? And again, if you consider 10 Praise| better were they only full of words and not so given to scolding 11 Praise| sputter about terms and words till they have quite lost 12 Praise| they in their new-found words and prodigious terms. Besides, 13 Praise| calls them, “strifes of words,” if he had thoroughly understood 14 Praise| their voice, sing out their words, skip up and down, and are 15 Praise| fatter, to see them speak big words; while each of the ladies 16 Praise| patrimony. When, though those words in the Gospel, “We have 17 Praise| owner read certain Greek words took so much notice of them 18 Praise| believe me, take his own words, Chapter 1, “I gave my heart 19 Praise| witnesses, Chapter 44, whose words, so help me, Hercules! I 20 Praise| him to cover? Take his own words, “Better is the man that 21 Praise| for I’ll give you his own words, not only in form but matter 22 Praise| leaving out all the other words because they made against 23 Praise| explained it thus, making two words of one. “A heretic must 24 Praise| folly; far be it that my words should give any offense, 25 Praise| next it, to have a noise of words and look upon the ceremonies. 26 Praise| out such a hodgepodge of words. ’Tis an old proverb, “I