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Freedom and Confinement Quotes
Here's spring come, and the nights one makes up bandsTo roam the town and sing out carnival,And I've been three weeks shut within my mew,A-painting for the great man, saints and saintsAnd saints ag...
Art and Culture Quotes
A-painting for the great man, saints and saintsAnd saints again. (48-49)
Lust Quotes
And here you catch me at an alley's endWhere sportive ladies leave their doors ajar? (5-6)
Religion Quotes
I'm grown a man no doubt, I've broken bounds:You should not take a fellow eight years oldAnd make him swear to never kiss the girls. (223-225)