Porter.  Here’s a knocking, indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate he should 
have old turning the key.  [Knocking within.]  Knock, knock, knock! Who’s 
there, i’ the name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the 
expectation of plenty: come in time; have napkins enough about you; here you’ll 
sweat for ’t. 

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These words could not have occurred in all of world history prior to late 
16th-century England.

The cry had always been, not enough; never had t been, "too much."

Anarchy indeed.

Carrol


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