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Oft for the words | that to others one speaks

He will get but an evil gift.

[a]66]. Too early to many | a meeting I came,

And some too late have I sought;

The beer was all drunk, | or not yet brewed;

Little the loathed man finds.

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[a]67]. To their homes men would bid me | hither and yon,

If at meal-time I needed no meat,