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La Rochefoucauld 382: Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses (Bouts-Rimes) where to e...
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Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses (Bouts-Rimes) where to each one puts what construction he pleases. [The Bouts-Rimes was a literary game popular in the 17th and 18th centuries--the rhymed words at the end of a line being given for others to fill up. Thus Horace Walpole being given, "brook, why, crook, I," returned the burlesque verse-- "I sits with my toes in a Brook, And if any one axes me Why? I gies 'em a rap with my Crook, 'Tis constancy makes me, ses I."]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_382
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