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- Thread-balls at my feet are rolling!-
- [Kicking at them.]
- Off with you! You block my path!
THE THREAD-BALLS [on the ground].
- We are thoughts;
- thou shouldst have thought us;-
- feet to run on
- thou shouldst have given us!
PEER [going round about].
- I have given life to one;-
- 'twas a bungled, crook-legged thing!
THE THREAD-BALLS
- We should have soared up
- like clangorous voices,-
- and here we must trundle
- as grey-yarn thread-balls.
PEER [stumbling].
- Thread-clue! You accursed scamp!
- Would you trip your father's heels?
- [Flees.]
WITHERED LEAVES [flying before the wind].
- We are a watchword;
- thou shouldst have proclaimed us!
- See how thy dozing
- has wofully riddled us.
- The worm has gnawed us
- in
