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"Fragments of an Intended Second Part of the Foregoing Satyr."
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Animals"
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Date: 1759
"Their [pedants'] constant overstraining of the Mind / Distorts the Brain, as Horses break their Wind / Or rude Confusions of the Things they read / Get up, like noxious Vapours, in the Head, / Until they have their constant Wanes and Fulls, / And Changes in the Insides of their Skulls."
preview | full record— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)