And Telling Me, The Sovereign'st Thing On Earth Was Parmaceti For An Inward Bruise

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And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,
He would himself have been a soldier.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV
-- Act i, Sc. 3

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