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Were I (who to my cost already am
One of those strange prodigious Creatures, Man)
A Spirit free, to choose for my own share,
What Case of Flesh, and Blood, I pleas’d to weare,
I’d be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear
Or any thing but that vain Animal
Who is so proud of being rational.
- Lord Rochester, from ‘Satyr Against Mankind’ (1675)
