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should cause clothiers to take wool, paying only If you speak three words, it will three times two parts of the price. Hayward. report you the three words.

Bacon. Struthium is a root used by the wool-dressers, As conceptions are the images of things to the

Arbuthnot. mind within itself, so are words or names the 2. Any short thick hair.

marks of those conceptious to the minds of them In the cauldron boil and bake;

we converse with.

South. IV oal of bat and tongue of dog. Sbakspeare. Amongst men who confound their ideas with WooʻLFEL, 1. s. (rool and fell.] Skin

words, there must be endless disputes, wrangling, and jargon.

Locke. not stripped of the wool.

Each wight who reads not, and but scans and Wool and woolfols were ever of little value in

spells, this kingdom.

Davies, Each word catcher that lives on syllables. Popes WooʻLLEN. adj. [from wool.] Made of 2. A short discourse.

woo! not finely dressed, and thence used Shall I vouchsafe your worship a zord or two? likewise for any thing coarse: it is like

-Two thousand, and I'U vouchsafe thee the

kearing. wise used in general for made of wool,

Sbakspeare.

A word, Lucilius, as distinct from linex.

How he receiv'd you.

Shatspears I was wont

A friend who shall own thee in thy lowest To call them woollen vassals, things created condition, answer all thy wants, and, in a word, To buy and sell with groals.

Sbakspeart.
never leave thee.

South. I could not endure a husband with a beard on In a word, the gospel describes God to us in his face: I had rather lie in woollen.

Sbaksp.

all respects such a one as we would wish him to It'oollen cloth will center, linen scarcely.

be.

Tillotson. Bacon.

3. Talk; discourse. At dawn of day our general cleft his pate, Spite of his woolkn nighracap. Dryden.

Why should calamity be full of words!

-Let them have scope; though what they do Won'.LEN, N. s. Cloth made of wool.

impart His breeches were of rugged woollen,

Help nothing else, yet they do ease the heart. And had been at the siege of Bullen. Hudibras.

Sbakspeare. Odious! in woollen! 'cwould a saint provoke!

He commanded the men to be ranged in batNo, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace talions, and rid to every squadron, giving thema Wrap my cold linibs and shade my lifelass face. such words as were proper to the oocasion. Pode.

Cleronder He is a bel-esprit and a woollen-draper. Swig

If you dislike the play, Wooʻlly. adj. [from wool.]

Pray make no words on 't till the second day

Or third be past ; for we would have you know 1. Clothed with wool.

it, When the work of generation was

The loss will fall on us, not on the poet. Between these woolly breeders,

Debam. The skilful shepherd peeld me certain wands. Cease this contention: be thy words severe,

Sbakspeare. Sharp as he merits; but the sword forbear. 2. Consisting of wool.

Dryden. Some few, by temp'rance taught, approaching If words are sometimes to be used, they ought slow,

to be grave, kind, and sober, representing ibe To distant fate by easy journeys go:

ill, or unbecomingness of the faults. Locke. Gently they lay 'ern down, as ev’ning sheep If I appear a little word-bound in my first son On their own woully f.ecces softly sleep. Dryd.

Jutions, I hope it will be imputed to the long 3. Resembling wool.

disuse of speech.

Spectator. What signifies

4. Dispute ; verbal contention. My ficcce of woolly, hair, that now uncurls ?

In argument upon a case,
Sbakspeare, Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me.
Nothing profits more

Sbakspeare. Than frequeir snows. Oh nay'st thou often see 5. Language; oral expression; living Thy furro vs whiien'd by the woodly rain,

speech. Nutritious:

Plilips.

Found you no displeasure by word or counteWoO'LPACK.] n. s.

[cool, pack, and

nance ? WooʻLSACK.) sack.] )

l'd write thee a challenge, or I'll deliver thy 1. A bag of wool; a bundle of wool. indignation to him by word of mouth. Sbaksp.

Why should she write to Edmund? Might The stat of the judges in the house of lords.

Pransport her purposes by word. Sbakspeare.' At bar abusive, on the bench unable,

An easy way, by word of mouth comniuniKnave on the woodsuck, fop at council-cable. cated to me.

Boyle. Dryder. 6. Proinise. 3. Any thing bulky without weight.

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly, swear Chaos of presbyt'ry, where laymen guide

Shakspeare. With the camac woolpuck clergy by their side. I take your princely word for chese re

Cleavelund.

dresses. WooʻLWARD. adv. [cuool and wart.] In I give it you, and will maintain my word. wool. Not used.

Shakspeare. I have no shirt: I go woolward for

penance.

All of them stout and hard people, false of Sbakspeare.

their words treacherou's in their practices, and Woop, n, s. (rubicilla, Lat.] A bird.

inerciless in their revenges.

Heylir. Woos. 8. s. [alga, Lat.] Sea-weed. An

The doke shall wield his conqu’ring sword, herb.

The king shall pass his honest word. Dryden. WORD. x.s. (poro, Sax. woord, Dutch.]

7. Signal; token; order.

Every soldier kill his prisoners; 1. A single part of speech.

Give the word through.

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Shakspeare.

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8. Account; tidings ; message.

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,
Bring we word thither

When for fame's sake
How the world gues, that to the pace of it

We bend to that the working of the heart. I may spur on my journey. Sbalspeare.

Sbakspeare. Two optick nerves she ties,

In Morat your hopes a crown design'd, Like spectacles, across the eyes;

And all the woman work'd within your mind. By which the spirits bring her word,

Drgacs. Whene'er the balls are tix'd or sur'd. Prior. 3. To act; to carry on operations.

Our better part remains, 9. Declaration ; purpose expressed.

To work in close design.

Milion. I know you brave, and take you at your word;

4. To operate as a manufacturer. That present service, which you vaunt, afford.

Dryden.
They that work in fine flax.

Isaiah. 10. Affirmation.

5. To terment. Every person has enough to do to work out

Into wine and strong beer put some like sub

stances, while they work, which may make his own salvation; which, if we will take the

them fume and inflame less.

Barsa, apostle's word, is to be done with fear and trembling.

Try the force of imagination upon staying the

Decay of Piety. I desire not the reader should take my word,

working of beer, when the barm is put in. Baren.

If in the wort of beer, while it wortel, beand therefore I will set two of their discourses

fore it be tunned, the burrage be often changed in the same light for every man to judge. Dryd.

with fresh, it will make a sovereign drink for JI. Scripture ; word of God.

melancholy.

Baces. They say this church of England neither hath 6. To operate; to have effect. the word purely preached, nor the sacraments With some other business put the kisg sincerely ministered.

W bitgift. From these sad thoughts that were too much 32. The second person of the ever ador

Sbukseen? able Trinity. A scriptore term.

All things work together for good to them that love God.,

Ressu. Thou my Word, begotten son, by thee This I perform

Milton.

Gravity worketh weakly, both far from the

earth, and also within the earth. Bares. To WoRd. v. n. [from the noun.] To

Although the same tribute laid by consent, or dispute.

by imposing, be all one to the purse, yet it He that descends not to word it with a shrew, works diversely on the courage : no people overdoes worse than beat her.

L'Estrange. charged with tribute is tit for empire. Bucos T. WORD. v. a. To express in proper These positive undertakings wrought upon words.

many to think that this opportunity should not Whether his extemporary wording might not

be lost.

Clarsede. be a defect.

Fell.

Nor number nor example with him prests Let us blacken him what we can, said Harri- To swerve from truth, or change his constant son of the blessed king, upon the wording and

mind. drawing up his charge against approaching trial. We see the workings of gratitude in the lsSoutb. raelites.

South. Whether I have improved these fables or no, Objects of pity, when the cause is new, in the wording or meaning of them, the book Would work too fiercely on the giddy crowd. must stand or fall to itselt. L'Estrange.

Dosar The apology for the king is the same, but

Poison will work against the stars: beware, worded with greater deference to that great

For ev'ry meal an antidote prepare. Drid, jos. prince.

Addison. When this reverence begins to pork in him, Woʻrdy. adj. [from word.] Verbose ; next consider his temper of mind. Lecke. full of words.

This so wrought upon the child, that afterwards he desired to be taught.

Lecte, Phocion, beholding a wordy orator, while he

Humours and manners work more in the was making a magnificent speech full of vain

meaner sort than with the nobility. Addiser. promises, said, I now fix my eres upon a cy

The ibidaboca is a foot round, and three yardo fress-tree: it has all the pomp imaginable in its

and a half long; his colours are white, black, branches, leaves, and height: but it bears no

and red : of all serpents his bite is the most pes. fruit.

Spectator. We need not lavish hours in wordy periods,

nicious, yet worketh the slowest. Greer.

7. To obtain by diligence. As do the Romans, ere they dare to tight.

Pbilips.

Without the king's assent Intemp’rate rage, a wordy war, began. Pope. 8. To ace internally; to operate as 2

You wrought to be a legate. Sbakset, Wore. The preterite of wear.

This on his helmet worc a lady's glove, purge, or other physick. And that a sleeve embroider'd by his love.

Dryden.

My medicine, work! thus credulous fools are My wife, the kindest, dearest, and the truest

caught.

Sbakspeare That ever wore the name.

Rowe. I should have doubted the operations of anuTWORK. v.n. pret. worked, or wrought.

mony, where such a potion could not everk.

Breers [peoncan, Saxon; werken, Dutch.]

It is benign, nor far from the nature of ali1. To labour; to travail ; to toil.

mont, into which, upon defect of werking, it is Good Kent, how shall I live and work

oft times converted

Brook To match thy goodness? life will be too short. Most purges heat a little; and all of them

Sbakspeure. work best, that is, cause the blood so to do, as Go and work; for no straw shall be given you. do fermenting liquors, in warm weather, or in a Exodus. warın room,

Grows. Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, 9. To act as on a subject. Our lite doth pass, and with time's wings doth fly:

Davies.

Let it be pain of body or distress of mind,

there's matter yet left for philosophy and con2. To be in action; to be in motion.

stancy to work upon.

L'Estrange

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Natural philosophy has sensible objects to God, only wise, to punish pride of wit, work upon; but then it often puzzles the reader Among men's wits hath this confusion wrought; with the intricacy of its notions. Addison. As the proud tow'r, whose points the clouds

The predictions Bickerstaff published, relato. did hit, ng to his death, too much affected and worked By tongues confusion was to ruin brought. on his imagination. Swift.

Davies, to. To make way.

Of the tree,
Body shall up to spirit work. Milton. Which, tasted, works knowledge of good and
Who would trust chance, since all men have

evil,
the seeds

Thou may'st not: in the day thou eat'st, thou diest.

Milton. Of good and ill, which should work upward first?

Dryden.

Elach herb he knew that works or good or ill, ii. To be tossed or agitated.

More learn'd than Mesve, half as learn'd as
Hill.

Harte.
Vex'd by wintry storms, Benacus raves,
Confus'd with working sands and rolling waves.

6. To manage in a state of motion ; to

Addison. put into motion. TO WORK, 7. a. pret. and part. passive

Mere personal valour could not supply want worked or wrought.

of knowledge in building and working ships.

Arbuthnop 1. To labour; to manufacture; to form

7. To put to labour ; to exert. by labour.

Now, Marcus, thy virtue's on the proof; He could have told them of two or three gold

Put forth thy utmost strength, work every nerve, mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason

And call up all thy father in thy soul. Addison. why they forbare to quork them at that time, 8. To embroider with a needle: as, she and when they left off from working them.

Raleigb.

worked an apron: The chaos, by the Divine power, was wrcught

I worked a violet leaf.

Spectator. from one form into another, till it settled into 9. To Work out. To effect by toil. an habitable earth.

Burnet. Not only every society, but every single perThis mint is to work off part of the metals son, has enough to do to work out his own salvafound in the neighbouring mountains. Addison. tion.

Dzcay of Piety: The young men acknowledged in love-letters, The mind takes the hint from the poet, and sealed with a particular wax, with certain en- works out the rest by the strength of her own chanting words wrought upon the seals, that they faculties.

Addison. died for her.

Tatler.

10. TO WORK out. To erase ; to efface. They now begin to work the wond'rous frame,

Tears of joy, for your returning spilt, To shape the parts, and raise the vital Hame.

Blackmore.

Work out and expiate our former guilt. Dryden. The industry of the people works up all their 11. To Work up. To raise. native commodities to the last degree of manu- That which is wanting to avork up the pity to facture.

Swift. a greater height, was not afforded me by the story. 2. To bring by action into any state.

Dryden. So the pure limpid stream, when foul with This lake resembles a sea when worked up by

Addison. Of rushing torrents and descending rains,

The sun, that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines,

Works up more fire and colour in their cheekse Till by degrees the floating mirrour shines.

Addison. Addison. We should inure ourselves to such thoughes, 3. To influence by successive impulses.

till they have worked up our souls into filial awe

and love of him. If you would work any man, know his nature

Atterbury. and fashions, and so lead him.

Bacon. 12. To Work up. To expend in any To hasten his destruction, come yourself, work, as materials. And work your royal father to his ruin.

A. Pbilips.

WORK. 7. s. (peorc, Sax. werk, Dutch.) 4. To make by gradual labour, or conti.

1. Toil; labour; employment.

Bread, correction, and work for a servan, nued violence.

Ecclesiaticus Sidelong he works his way.

Milton. In the bottom of some mines of Gerniny Through winds, and waves, and storms, he there grow vegetables, which the w.rk fulis say works his way;

have magical virtue.

Bacon. Impatient for the battle; one day more

The ground, unbid, gives more than we call will set the victor thundering at our gates.

ask: Addison.

But work is pleasure, when we chuse our task. s. To produce by labour; to effect.

Dryder. Fly the dreadful war,

2. A state of labour. That in thyself thy lesser parts do move,

All the world is perpetually at work, only that Outrageous anger, and woe-working jar. Spens.

our poor mortal lives should pass the na píer for Our light afliction for a moment worked for

that little time we possess them, or else end the us a far more eternal weight of glory. 2 Cor.

better when we lose thein: upon this occasion We might work any effect, not holpen by the riches came to be coveted, honours esteemed, co-operation of spirits, but only by the unity of

friendship pursued, and virtues admired. Iimple.

Bicon. Moisture, although it doth not pass through 3. Bungling attempt. bodies without communication of some substance,

It is pleasant to see what work our adversaries as heat and cold do, yet it worketh effects by qua

make with this innocent canon: sometimes 'ris lifying of the heat and cold.

Bacon, a mere forgery of hereticks, and sometimes the Such power, being above all that the under- bishops that met there were not so wise as they Standing of man can conceive, may well work

should have been.

Stilling

fee. such wonders.

Drummond, 4. Flowers or embroidery of the needle. VOL.IV.

stains

storms.

nature,

a

a

ness.

Round her work she did empale

The quick forge and working house of thought. With a fair border wrought of sundry Powers,

Sbakspear.. Inwoven with an ivy-winding trail. Spenser. Protogenes had his workbouse in a garden out

That handkerchief you gave me : I must take of town, where he was daily finishing those out the work : a likely piece of work, that you pieces he begun.

Dryder. should find it in your chamber, and know not

2. A place where idlers and vagabonds who left it there. This is some minx's token,

are condemned to labour. and I must take out the work? There, give it

Hast thog suffered at any time by vagahouds your hobbyhorse: wheresoever you had it, I'll take out no work on 't.

Shakspeare,

and pilferers? Esteem and promote those useFlavia is very idle, and yet very fond of tine

ful charities which remove such pests into priwork : this makes her often sit working in bed

sons and workbouses.

Atterbury until noon.

Law. WOʻRKINGDAY. n. s. (work and day.) 5. Any fabrick or compages of art.

Day on which labour is permitted ; not Nor was the work impair'd by storms alone, the sabbath : it therefore is taken for But felt th' approaches of too warm a sun. Pope. coarse and common. 6. Action ; feat; deed.

How full of briars is this werking day world! The instrumentalness of riches to works of

Sbatsport. charity, has rendered it necessary in every chris- Will you have me, lady? tian commonwealth by laws to secure propriety. - No, my lord, unless I inight have another

Hammond,

for workingdays; your grace is too costly !. Nothing lovelier can be found in woman, wear every day.

Sakspear. Than good works in her husband to promote. WOʻRKMAN, n. s. [work and man.] An

Milton.

artificer; a maker of any thing. Not in the works of bloody Mars employd,

When workmen strive to do better than well, The wanton youth inglorious peace enjoy'd.

Pope.
They do confound their skill in covetousness.

Sbakspeare 9. Any thing made.

If prudence works, who is a more cunnias Where is that holy fire, which verse is said

workman? To have? Is that enchanting force decay'd ? There was no other cause preceding thaa lis Verse, that draws nature's works from nature's

own will, no other matter than his own power, law,

no other workman than his own word, and do Thee, her best work, to her work cannot draw.

other consideration than his own infinite gond. Dorne.

Raleak O fairest of creation! last and best

They have inscribed the pedestal, to she Of all God's works! creature in whom excels

their value for the workman. Whatever can to sight or tight be formid; Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet,

WORKMANLY. adj. [from suorkmaz.) How art thou lost !

Milton. Skilful; well performed; workman3. Operation.

like. As to the composition or dissolution of mixt WORKMANLY. adv. Skilfully; in a bodies, which is the chief work of elements, and

manner becoming a workman. requires an intire application of the agents, wa- In having but fortie foot wrtranlı digbe, ter hath the principality and excess over earth.

Take saffron enough for a lord and a knight
Digly.

Tsun 9. Effect; consequence of agency.

Wo will fetch thee straight
Fancy

Daphne roaming through a thorny rood,
Wild work produces oft and most in dreams. Scratching her legs, that one shall sweat she

Milton.

bleeds, 10. Management; treatment.

And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,
Let him alone; I'll go another way to work So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
with him.
Siedspeare.

Sbetsparti 11. To set on WORK. To enploy; to WORKMANSHIP. 11. s. [from workman.) engage.

1. Manufacture; something made by any It setteth those wits on trork in better things,

one. which would be else employed in worse. Hocker. Nor any skill'd in workmanship emboss'd, WoʻRKER. n. s. [from work.] One that

Nor any skill'd in loops of fing'ring tme,

Might in their divers cunning ever dare works.

With this so curious network to compare. Spor Ye fair nymphs, which oftentimes have lov'd

By how much Adam exceeded all men in . The cruel worker of your kindly smarts,

perfection, by being the immediate writ. Prepare yourselves, and opea wide your hearts.

ship of God, by so much did that chosen garder Spenser. exceed all parts of the world.

Ralcet His father was a worker in brass.

1 Kings. He moulded him to his own idea, delighring You spoke me fair, but betrayed me: depart in the choice of the materials; and afterwards, from me, you professors of holiness, but workers

as great architects used to do, in the methear of iniquity.

Scutb.

ship of his regal hand. WOʻRKFellow. n. s. [work and fellow.] What more reasonable than to think, that if One engaged in the same work with an- we be God's workmanship, he shall set this mark

of himself upon all reasonable creatures! Tills other.

2. The skill of a worker ; the degree of Timotheus, my wordfellow, and Lucius, sa

Romans.

skill discovered in any manufacture. WO'RKHOUSE. 2n.s. [from work and The Tritonian goddess having heard

Her blazed fame, which all the world had fli'd. WOʻRKINGHOUSE. S house.]

Came down to prove the truth,and due reward 1. A place in which any manufacture is

For her praise-worthy workmansbip to yield' carried on.

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WOR The wand'ring streams įn whose entrancing from God. Sometimes we are to understand gyres

the men of the world, with wiose solicitations Wise Nature oft herself her workmansbip ad- we are so apt to comply.

Rogers. mires.

Drayton. 6. Publick life; the publick. 3. The art of working.

Why dost thou shew.me tbus to th' world? If there were no metals, 'tis a mystery to Bear me to prison.

Sbakspeare. me how 'Tubalcain could ever have taught the Hence banish’d, is banish'd from the world; workmanship and use of them. Woodward. And world-exil'd is death. Shakspeare. WoʻRKMASTER. n. s. [work and master.] 7. Business of life; trouble of life. The pertoriner of any work.

Here I 'll set up my everlasting rest,
What time this world's great workmaster did

And shake the yoke of man's suspicious stars cast,

From this world-wearied flesh. Sbakspeare
To make all things, such as we now behold, 8. Great multitude.
It seems that he before his eyes had plac'd

You a world of curses undergo
A goodly pattern, to whose perfect mould Being the agents, or base second means. Sbaksp.
He fashion'd them so comely. Spenser. Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company;
Every carpenter and workmaster that labour-

For you in my respect are all the world. Sbaksp. ech.

Ecclesiasticus, I leave to speak of a world of other attempts Desire, which tends to know

furnished by kings.

Raleigh. The works of God, thereby to glorify

Garments richly woven The great workmaster leads to no excess. Milt. And worlds of prize.

Chapman. WoʻRKWOMAN. n. s. [work and woman.]

In double fiftie sable barks: with him a world

of men 1. A woman skilled in needlework.

Most strong and full of valure went. Chapman. The most fine-fingered workwoman on ground,

What a world of contradictions would follow Arachne, by his means was vanquished. Spenser. 2. A woman that works for hire.

upon the contrary opinion, and what a world of

confusions upon the contrary practice! WoʻRKYDAY. n. s. (corrupted from work

Bisbop Saunderson. ingday.) The day not the sabbath.

Just so romances are, for what else
Tell her but a workyday fortune. Shakspeare.

Is in them all but love and battles ?
Sunday, the other days, and thou

O'th' first of these we have no great matter
Make up one man, whose face thou art :

To treat of, but a world o'ti' latter. Hudibras. The workydays are the back part.

Herbert, It brought into this world a world of woe.
Holyday's, if haply she were gone,

Milton. Like workydays, I wish would soon be done. There were a world of paintings, and among

Gay.
the rest the picture of a lion.

L'Estrange. WORLD. n. s. (porld, Saxon; wereld, Marriage draws a world of business on our Dutch. ]

hands, subjects us to law-suits, and loads us with domestick cares.

Dryden. 1. World is the great collective idea of all

From thy corporeal prison freed, bodies whatever.

Locke.

Soon hast thou reach'd the goal with mended 2. System of beings.

pace Begotten before all worlds. Nicene Creed, A world of woes dispatch'd in little space. Dryd.

God hath in these last days spoken unto us Why will you fight against so sweet a passion, by his Son, by whom he made the worlds. Heb. And steel your heart to such a world of charms? Know how this world

Addison. Of heav'n and carth conspicuous first began.

Milton. 9. Mankind; a hyperbolical expression 3. The earth; the terraqueous globe.

for
many :

: all the world is a favourite He the world

phrase, in French, for mony. Built on çircumfluous waters.

Milton.

This hath bred high terms of separation beFerdinand Magellanus was the first that com

tween such and the rest of the world, whereby passed the whole world,

Heylin.

the one sort are named the brethren, the godly'; 4. Present siste of existence.

the other, worldings, time-servers, pleasers of I'm in this earthly world, where to do harm

men more than of God.

Hookera

'Tis the duke's plcasure, Is often laudable; to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly. Sbakspeare.

Whose dispositi .il, il :ve world well knows, The making of a will is generally an uneasy ask,

Will not be rubbd or stopp'd. Shakspeare: as being at once a double parting with the world.

Thus the world may see what 'tis to innovate!

Drayton.
Fell.
I was not come into the world then. L'Estran.

He was willing to declare to all the world,
He wittingis brought evil into the world.

that, as he had been brought up in that religion More.

established in the church of England, so he could Christian fortitude consists in suffering, for

maintain the same by unanswerable reasons.

Clarendon. the love of God, whatever hardships can befal in the world.

Dryden.

We turn them over to the study of beauty

and dress, and the whole world conspires to make 5. A secular life.

them think of nothing else.

Lau.
Happy is she that from the world retires
And carries with her what the world admires;

10. Course of life. Thrice happy she, whose young thoughts fixt

Persons of conscience will be afraid to begin above,

the world unjustly.

Clarissa.
While she is lovely does to heav'n make love: 11. Universal empire.
I need not urge your promise, ere vou find
An entrance here, to leave the world behind.

Rome was to stay the trold. Milton,

This through the east just vengeance hurid,
Waller,

Love los: poor Antony the world. Prior.
By the world, we sometimes understand the
things of this world; the variety of pleasures

12. The manners of men; the practics of and interests which steal away our affections

life.

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