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=5.= The wolf’s a coward, who, in goodly packs, etc.

The wolf pack symbolizes the mob. The law of mob life is

cruelty, and cruelty is always cowardly.

=10.= How some great beast that shambled like a bear

Why “shambled like a bear”?

=24.= Woe in the silken meshes of the friend,

=25.= Weal in the might and menace of the foe.

The friend often weakens his friend. The opposition of the enemy

develops his strength.

Define: lacerated, vituperative, prodigious, frenzy, weal.

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