“Tender-handed stroke a nettle,And it stings you for your pains;Grasp it like a man of mettle,And it soft as silk remains.’Tis the same with common natures:Use ’em kindly, they rebel;But be rough as nutmeg-graters,And the rogues obey you well.”

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