Had been in operation at the time?
We should have had no SHAKSPEARE. And, besides,
It means the death of British poetry,
Because we can't continue to compete
With foreign countries.
_A Labour Member._ I am not a lawyer
Nor I am not a manufacturer,
But earned my bread these five-and-forty years,
Sweating and sweating. I know what sweat is....
_An Hon. Member._
You're not the only person who has sweated.
_Labour Member._
At any rate I sweated more than you did.
_Mr. SPEAKER._
I do not think these constant interruptions
Are really helping us.
_Labour Member._ So you may take it
That what I utter is an honest word,
A plain, blunt, honest and straightforward word,
Neither adorned with worthless flummery
And tricks of language--for I have no learning--
Nor yet with false and empty rhetoric
Like lawyers' speeches. I am not a lawyer,
I thank my stars that I am not a lawyer,
And can without a spate of parleying
Briefly expound, as I am doing now,
The whole caboodle. As for this here Bill,
So far as it means Nationalising verse,
We shall support it. On the other hand,
So far as it means interferences