21 On apump stopt with stones.
M.
I'le cut it down, I swear by this same hand,
If 'twill not run, it shall no longer stand.
Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
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- Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
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- 1640.
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- Proverbs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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R.
Pray ••ir be patient, let your pump alone,
How can it water-make when't hath the stone.
Yet did he wisely when he did it fell,
For in so doing he did make it well.