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 He's no small prince who every day
 * Thus to himself can say,

Now will I sleep, now eat, now sit, now walk, Now meditate alone, now with acquaintance talk; This I will do, here I will stay, Or, if my fancy call me away, My man and I will presently go ride (For we before have nothing to provide, Nor after are to render an account) To Dover, Berwick, or the Cornish Mount.
 * If thou but a short journey take,
 * As if thy last thou wert to make,

Business must be despatched ere thou canst part.
 * Nor canst thou stir unless there be
 * A hundred horse and men to wait on thee,
 * And many a mule, and many a cart:
 * What an unwieldy man thou art!
 * The Rhodian Colossus so
 * A journey too might go.