Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Pontefract: In Yorkshire
What is man, If his chief good, and market Of his time, Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. Sure, he, that made us With such large discourse Looking before, and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To rust in us unused.'
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