Ross Ritter

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Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. These are the scum, with which coarse wits abound: The fine may spare these well, yet not go less. All things are big with jest: nothing that’s plain, 240 But may be witty, if thou hast the vein.
The Complete English Poems
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