“Why to mute fish should'st thou thyself discoverAnd not to me, thy no less silent lover?”
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
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“Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.”
Source: The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of those which were formerly printed; and those which he design'd for the press, publish'd out of the author's original copies. With The cutter of Coleman-street ...
Source: Select works [ed. by R. Hurd].