Perhaps (quoth I) you may have some few greasy cavaliers
that will seek to dissuade you from it, and they will not stick
to stand on their three-halfpenny honour, swearing and staring
that a man were better be a hangman than an intelligencer,
and call him a sneaking eavesdropper, a scraping hedge-creeper,
and a piperly pickthank, but you must not be discouraged by their
talk, for the most part of these beggarly contemners of wit are
huge burly-boned butchers like Ajax, good for nothing but to
strike right-down blows on a wedge with a cleaving beetle, or
stand hammering all day upon bars of iron. The whelps of a
bear never grow but sleeping, and these bearwards, having
big limbs, shall be preferred though they do nothing.