Whose influence is begot of that loose grace
Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:
A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
850 Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,
[852] Deaf’d with the clamours of their own dear groans,
[853] Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,
And I will have you and that fault withal;
855 But if they will not, throw away that spirit,
And I shall find you empty of that fault,