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  •     For so we thought him — keener yet, if aught is so —     Becomes a dunce more boorish e'en than hedge-born boor,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     For so we thought him — keener yet, if aught is so —     Becomes a dunce more boorish e'en than hedge-born boor,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Becomes a dunce more boorish e'en than hedge-born boor,

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Thy’s hedge-born whoreson hath influenced thou’s own clot poled, tardy gaited, pig-nut, heavily cockered, maggot pie of a foul knave’s rat‘s bain.

    Quick round up uknaija 2008

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