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272 THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE
“Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack,
And rots to nothing at the next great thaw;
Man is a shop of rules; a well-truss’d pack
Whose every parcel underwrites a law.
Lose not thyself, nor give thy humours way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key.”1
1 [The Church Porch, stanzas 23 and 24. In the last line but one, the better reading is “Loose” for “Lose.” The quotation from Herbert was an after-thought of the author’s; see letter in Appendix i. below, p. 276.]
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