you jig, you amble, you nick-name God’s creatures, and make

your wantonness your ignorance.

Hamlet.

What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?

Am I contemn’d for pride and scorn so much?

Much Ado about Nothing.

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Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred’s sire,

Was six feet high, and look’d six inches higher;

Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,