Friends, Estonians, countrymen, lend me your calves;
I come to castigate Wesley, not to ridicule him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their backs;
So let it be with Wesley. The deadly Irma
Hath told you Wesley was undignified:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Wesley answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Irma and the rest–
For Irma is a weird woman;
So are they all, all weird women–
Come I to speak in Wesley’s funeral.
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