To speak within, and to ones selfe, and yet
Bee heard, is much, yet Fanning doth it:
So tall and stout a man, ‘tis strange to see ‘t
So like a coward should his words down eat:
The belly hath no ears, they say, yet his
Hath ears to hear, and tongue to talk, I wis.
Robert Heath, Clarastella: Together With Poems Occasional,
Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs (London: for Humph. Moseley, 1650), Epigrams
(separately paginated), p. 37
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