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 1 Pref  |        myself may have made me blind in my own cause, I have
 2 Praise| mistake me not, ’twas not that blind and decrepit Plutus in Aristophanes
 3 Praise|     rolling sea, nor in any of blind Homer’s as blind caves:
 4 Praise|        any of blind Homer’s as blind caves: but in the Fortunate
 5 Praise|      if to wink, slip over, be blind at, or deceived in the vices
 6 Praise|        all our love, Cupid, as blind as a beetle? And as with
 7 Praise| prudence, such as Homer though blind may be said to have seen
 8 Praise|       see old fellows and half blind to play with spectacles?
 9 Praise|   laughs at them and all their blind conjectures. For that they
10 Praise|  perhaps most of them are half blind, or their wits a wool-gathering,
11 Praise|      that at this hour he’s as blind as a beetle, to wit, all
12 Praise|     acquit themselves to be no blind seers.~In like manner cardinals,
13 Praise|       crows’ eyes; that is, to blind the doctors of our times