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Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave, and new,

Good penny-worths,—but money cannot move:

I keep a fair but for the Fair to view;

A beggar may be liberal of love.

Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true—

The heart is true.

Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again;

My trifles come as treasures from my mind;

It is a precious jewel to be plain;

Sometimes in shell the orient'st pearls we find:—

Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain!

Of me a grain!

Anon.