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LINES ("FOLLY HATH...")

Folly hath now turned out of door
Mankind and Fate, who were before
   Jove's harlequin and clown:
For goosegrass-harvest now is o'er;
The world's no stage, no tavern more,
   Its sign, the Fool's ta'en down.

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