Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.
Knolles
Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
puhekieltä(past tense of)
puhekieltä(past participle of)
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(w) (in translation)
The moving finger writes, and having writ, not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line(�)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)
For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.