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There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies. - Charles Churchill, The Prophecy of Famine (l. 327) Those oft are stratagems which errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. I, l. 177) For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire VI, l. 187)
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