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Ecclesiasticus 44: 1-15

1 Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

2 The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning.

3 Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies:

4 Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent are their instructions:

5 Such as found out musical tunes, and recited verses in writing:

6 Rich men furnished with ability, living peaceably in their habitations:

7 All these were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of their times.

8 There be of them, that have left a name behind them, that their praises might be reported.

9 And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.

10 But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.

11 With their seed shall continually remain a good inheritance, and their children are within the covenant.

12 Their seed standeth fast, and their children for their sakes.

13 Their seed shall remain for ever, and their glory shall not be blotted out.

14 Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.

15 The people will tell of their wisdom, and the congregation will shew forth their praise.

THEN BEHOLD THESE

Shakespeare
Sir Richard Steele
Laurence Sterne
George Peele

Albert Einstein
Richard Feynman
L. Pauling
Stephen Hawking
Euler

Lena Horne
Ben Elton
Vivien Leigh
Robert Wuhl

Theodore Roosevelt
Lech Walesa
Rutherford B. Hayes
Queen Victoria

Emily Greene Balch
Rachel Carson
Le Duc Tho
Mother Teresa
Elie Wiesel
Nelson Mandela
Rev. Martin Luther King

Boethius
Demosthenes
Epictetus
Dionysius
Tacitus
Ovid
Alphonso the Wise

H. H. Breen
Robert Greene
Wolfgang von Goethe
Thomas Hood

Rachel Hetherington
Thea Astley
Gloria Steinem
Heidi Burge

Matthew Henry
Martin Luther
Cotton Mather

The Bronte Family
The Trung Sisters
The three Bachs
The Three Tenors
The Two Ronnies?

Shimon Peres
Madeleine Albright
Wu Yi
Li Gong

Marie Curie
Marie Antoinette
Doris Fleeson
Wendy Whiting

T. Wopat
Floyd Vivino
Peter Weir
W. The Pooh?

Matthew Green
Edmund Spenser
Henry Fielding

Sheffield, Austin, Buffon
T. Paine
O. Henry

George the Third
The Third Man
The Third Earl of Chesterfield
The Great White Hope

The Sanhedrin
The Great Shepherd
Charles Darwin

Edward Gibbon
Maria Edgeworth
Ruth Benedict
Erasmus Darwin

Phil Friederichs
Friedrich von Thun
Beth Porter
Don Schiff
The Notorious B.I.G.

Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Madame du Deffand
Harriet Tubman
Honest Abe and Mr. Booth

Inuit,
Hawaiian,
Buddhist,
Shinto,
Indian,
Dubliner...

Oh, bravo! First-rate!

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The full title of the novel Moll Flanders.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous

MOLL FLANDERS,

who was born in Newgate and,
during a Life of Continu'd Variety
was Ten Year a Whore
Three Times Married
(of which once to her own Brother)
Seven Year a Thief
Three Year a Transported Felon in Virginia,
where she Reformed her ways and Died a Penitent

by
Daniel Defoe

To and fro, now far, then near,
Fiery M. rode to her Dear;
Wooed and wedded, fine and fair,
Then avowed to cane him there!

In a trice she flew away
(But for fun, I have to say)
From him to a prison crew,
To net ruin (ah, swear anew!).

At age eighty, she retires,
Unbefriended, by her fires.
Then repents her sins and all.
Love your sense of timing, Moll!

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A word-unit anagram of the first and last words from each of the 154 Shakespeare sonnets. The anagram is done in free verse but roughly in the manner of a 'ballade supreme', with three sections, each ending with the same two lines, followed by an 'envoy'.

From thee / When cold / Look thee / Unthrifty be
Those sweet / Then heir / Lo son / Music none
Is commits / For thee / As die / When hence
O so / Not date / When new / But skill
Who rhyme / Shall thee / Devouring young / A treasure
So sell / My again / As wit / Mine heart
Let removed / Lord me / Weary find / How stronger
When kings / When end / Thy me / If love
Full staineth / Why deeds / No me / Let report
As me / How praise / O remain / Take foes
Those me / That alone / When me / If woe
The sad / Mine heart / Betwixt delight / How dear
Against cause / How behind / Thus go / So hope
What heart / O truth / Not eyes / Sweet rare
Being ill / That well / If praise / Like hand
Is near / Sin days / Against green / When lose
Since bright / Tired alone / Ah bad / Thus yore
Those grow / That owe / No gone / O worth
That long / But remains / So away / Why told
Thy book / So ignorance / Whilst pay / O decay
Or men / I abused / I devise / Who worse
My effect / Was mine / Farewell matter / When wrong
Say hate / Then so / Some make / But not
So show / They weeds / How edge / Some report
How near / From play / The thee / Where knife
O now / My song / Alack it / To dead
Let one / When praise / Not spent / What's dead
O all / Alas breast / O me / Your dead
Since untrue / Or begin / Those grow / Let loved
Accuse love / Like you / What spent / That me
'Tis reign / Thy me / No thee / If crime
Were't control / O thee / In so / How kiss
Th' hell / My compare / Thou proceeds / Thine lack
Beshrew me / So free / Whoever Will /If Will
Thou transferred / When be / O pain / Be wide
In pain / Love denied / Lo still / Two out
Those you / Poor then / My night / O find
Canst blind / O thee / Love fall / In be
Cupid eyes / The love

Shall I compare thee to a knife-edge pain?
Alas! Blind Cupid is gone from thee.
O how cold the hand, when dead so long.
O farewell look! What's truth?
When the king's one son
Remains alone?
Or when told in th' book, as
"Let thee then beshrew me when 'tis night"?
Why, no! How so untrue,
As wrong wit, like bad rhyme.
Ah, where was thy love?
Were't transferred? Why? How? When?
If so, that rare show
Canst not begin again.
Control your hate -
Bright hope, grow green near me:
O love, be mine:
So let my heart praise thee!

If when those deeds
Betwixt effect or cause
Lack worth, then, since removed,
Thy breast will full well lose
The treasure that thou spent,
Then report that song being but none,
Thus die alone.
O, how foes that accuse me
Find delight in crime, sell me;
Lo, how they play!
O Lord, take me (if all be thine);
Go out, against whoever staineth thee.
Devouring those days,
Remain near me;
O love, be mine:
So let my heart praise thee!

When men owe some matter,
Fall behind, thus pay,
So my ignorance (no 'how', no 'when')
Proceeds in unthrifty skill,
Whilst my young will (if tired, if spent)
Commits sin. Like when thou
Abused those who loved not thee.
O woe is me, since yore!
Lo, thy poor heir, denied music:
Alack, what ill report!
(O from it now make me free)
But worse: what dead, weary Hell,
As when you devise some new end
Against those who kiss you.
O hence, pain -
So away, dead weeds!
O love, be mine:
So let my heart praise thee!

O how those two sad eyes
(Date-sweet eyes so wide)
Still reign - but not for me.
O find me dear, I say;
That sweet love grow stronger,
Not decay.

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Updated: May 10, 2016


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