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Sometimes he angers me, With telling me of the mold-warp, and the ant, Of the dreamer Merlin, and his prophecies; And of a dragon and a finless fish, A clip-wing'd griffin, and a moulten raven, A couching lion, and a rampant cat, And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. I'll tell you what,- He held me, but last night, at least nine hours, In reckoning up the several devils' names, That were his lackeys: I cried-humph, and well-go to- But mark'd him not a word. O he's as tedious As is a tired horse, a railing wife; Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live With cheese and garlick, in a windmill, far, Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, In any summer-house in Christendom. H. IV. PT. 1. iii.