from Chapter 13
How class your man? — as better than the most,
Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak?
As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? 2d Gent.
Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books,
The drifted relics of all time. As well
Sort them at once by size and livery:
Vellum, tall copies, and the common calf
Will hardly cover more diversity
Than all your labels cunningly devised
To class your unread authors.
Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak?
As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? 2d Gent.
Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books,
The drifted relics of all time. As well
Sort them at once by size and livery:
Vellum, tall copies, and the common calf
Will hardly cover more diversity
Than all your labels cunningly devised
To class your unread authors.
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