]
[Footnote 12:
"Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks;
I, from the Orient to the drooping West,
Making the wind my posthorse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth;
Upon my tongues continued ride:
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
[Footnote 12:
"Open your ears; for which of you will stop
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speaks;
I, from the Orient to the drooping West,
Making the wind my posthorse, still unfold
The acts commenced on this ball of earth;
Upon my tongues continued ride:
The which in every language I pronounce,
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
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