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Stop, gentlemen, nor pass me by,

Of wares I have a choice collection:

Pray honor them with your inspection.

Lose not this opportunity!

Yet nothing in my booth you'll find

Without its counterpart on earth; there's naught,

Which to the world, and to mankind,

Hath not some direful mischief wrought.

No dagger here, which hath not flow'd with blood,

No chalice, whence, into some healthy frame

Hath not been poured hot poison's wasting flood.

No trinket, but hath wrought some woman's shame,

No weapon but hath cut some sacred tie,

Or from behind hath stabb'd an enemy.