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 Thereby to please my neighbor—no, not I; I did it my own self to gratify.

... Thus, I set pen to paper with delight, And quickly had my thoughts in black and white; For having now my method by the end, Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned It down until it came at last to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

Well, when I had thus put mine ends together, I showed them other, that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify. And some said, "Let them live"; some, "Let them die." Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Now was I in a strait, and did not see Which was the best thing to be done by me. At last I thought, "Since you are thus divided, I print it will"; and so the case decided.